Primary Publication: Neugebauer, Otto E.; Sachs, Abraham J. (1945) MCT 042 YBC 07289
Collection: Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Museum no.: YBC 07289
Provenience: uncertain (mod. uncertain)
Period: Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)
Object Type: tablet or envelope > tablet
Material: clay
Transliteration:
atf: use math
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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