Babylonian mathematics | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-13

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00:01:27 1 Origins of Babylonian mathematics
00:02:24 2 Babylonian numerals
00:03:21 3 Sumerian mathematics
00:03:29 4 Old Babylonian mathematics (2000–1600 BC)
00:03:39 4.1 Arithmetic
00:04:03 4.2 Algebra
00:04:16 4.3 Growth
00:04:37 4.4 Plimpton 322
00:08:05 4.5 Geometry
00:12:45 5 Influence
00:13:17 6 See also
00:13:34 7 Notes
00:15:16 8 References
00:17:49 Influence
00:19:57 239 returns in anomaly (anomalistic month)
00:20:36 29;31:50:08:20 days (sexagesimal; 29.53059413… days in decimals
00:25:10 9 anomalistic months.
00:25:15 See also



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Babylonian mathematics (also known as Assyro-Babylonian mathematics) was any mathematics developed or practiced by the people of Mesopotamia, from the days of the early Sumerians to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC. Babylonian mathematical texts are plentiful and well edited. In respect of time they fall in two distinct groups: one from the Old Babylonian period (1830–1531 BC), the other mainly Seleucid from the last three or four centuries BC. In respect of content there is scarcely any difference between the two groups of texts. Babylonian mathematics remained constant, in character and content, for nearly two millennia.In contrast to the scarcity of sources in Egyptian mathematics, knowledge of Babylonian mathematics is derived from some 400 clay tablets unearthed since the 1850s. Written in Cuneiform script, tablets were inscribed while the clay was moist, and baked hard in an oven or by the heat of the sun. The majority of recovered clay tablets date from 1800 to 1600 BCE, and cover topics that include fractions, algebra, quadratic and cubic equations and the Pythagorean theorem. The Babylonian tablet YBC 7289 gives an approximation to 
  
    
      
        
          
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    {\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}}
   accurate to three significant sexagesimal digits (about six significant decimal digits).