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  2. Babylonian mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Babylonian mathematics is a range of numeric and more advanced mathematical practices in the ancient Near East, written in cuneiform script.Study has historically focused on the First Babylonian dynasty old Babylonian period in the early second millennium BC due to the wealth of data available.

  3. YBC 7289 - Wikipedia

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    YBC 7289 is a Babylonian clay tablet notable for containing an accurate sexagesimal approximation to the square root of 2, the length of the diagonal of a unit square. This number is given to the equivalent of six decimal digits, "the greatest known computational accuracy ... in the ancient world". [ 1 ]

  4. Category:Babylonian mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Babylonian mathematics" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.

  5. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    [29] [30] [31] A decimal version of the sexagesimal number system, today called Assyro-Babylonian Common, developed in the second millennium BCE, reflecting the increased influence of Semitic peoples like the Akkadians and Eblaites; while today it is less well known than its sexagesimal counterpart, it would eventually become the dominant ...

  6. Babylonian cuneiform numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Babylonian system is credited as being the first known positional numeral system, in which the value of a particular digit depends both on the digit itself and its position within the number. This was an extremely important development because non-place-value systems require unique symbols to represent each power of a base (ten, one hundred ...

  7. Timeline of algebra - Wikipedia

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    [9] 820: The word algebra is derived from operations described in the treatise written by the Persian mathematician, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḵhwārizmī, titled Al-Kitab al-Jabr wa-l-Muqabala (meaning "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing") on the systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations

  8. 4,000-Year-Old Babylonian Tablets Containing Evil Omens ...

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    Researchers have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old tablets found more than 100 years ago in modern-day Iraq.. The clay tablets have cuneiform inscriptions (wedge-shaped characters used in ancient ...

  9. Plimpton 322 - Wikipedia

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    Plimpton 322 is a Babylonian clay tablet, believed to have been written around 1800 BC, that contains a mathematical table written in cuneiform script.Each row of the table relates to a Pythagorean triple, that is, a triple of integers (,,) that satisfies the Pythagorean theorem, + =, the rule that equates the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle to the square of the hypotenuse.