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You'd first have to prove that the diagonals bisect each other (so that you can say b = 2h). I'm not sure whether that result was known at the time, but it's n
by aneesh 18y ago
You'd first have to prove that the diagonals bisect each other (so that you can say b = 2h). I'm not sure whether that result was known at the time, but it's not too hard to prove.
- chancho 18y agoYou're right. That's pushing it for those handful of scratches on the tablet. Who knows, maybe they had some lemma tablets lying around.
- sethg 18y agoFrom my own limited experience, ancient documents tended to be very elliptical; when everything had to be copied out by hand the reader was expected to do a little more work to understand what documents meant. So this tablet may have been the equivalent of notes accompanying a lecture: "As you can see from the triangles on this diagram..."