Ancient Mathematics(Mesopotamia/Babylon) Flashcards
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What is the Lebombo bone
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One of the first mathematical artifacts, it is a bone found in the African Congo with tally marks on it
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What is Plimton 322
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A Babylonian tablet from ~2000BCE that has 15 pythagorean triples
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What is YBC 7289
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Babylonian tablet in yale archives with an approximation for Sqrt(2)
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What is a pythagorean triple
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a triple of natural numbers a,b,c where a^2 + b^2 = c^2
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