MCT 042 YBC 07289 (P255048)

Mathematical tablet excavated in Uncertain (mod. uncertain), dated to the Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC) period and now kept in Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Transliteration

tablet
obverse
1.a. 30
1.b.1. 1.24.51.10
  Babylonian square root of 2 = 1.41421296 vs. mod. 1.41421356...
1.b.2. 42.25.35
  1.24.51.10 /2 = 42.25.35
reverse
  (possibly erased exercise with right triangle)
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