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Iraqi student’s 4,000-year-old math mistake well preserved on a clay tablet

A student from ancient Sumer (modern-day Iraq) got the answer wrong on their 4,000-year-old geometry homework at a time when ...
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Babylonian tablet preserves student's 4,000-year-old geometry mistake

What it tells us about the past: This round clay tablet, which is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, is one of two dozen examples of ancient Babylonian mathematics ...
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Polygons are multi-sided shapes with different properties. Shapes have symmetrical properties and some can tessellate. Loci and constructions - Edexcel Loci are a set of points with the same property.
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Babylonian tablet preserves student's 4,000-year-old geometry mistake

A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
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Babylonian tablet preserves student's 4,000-year-old geometry mistake

What it is: A cuneiform mathematical clay tablet with an incorrect answer Where it is from: Tell Ingharra, Kish (Sumer), modern-day Iraq When it was made: Old Babylonian period, between 1900 and 1600 ...