An error for the ages: 4,000-year-old clay tablet immortalizes Sumerian student's math mistake
Among these digitized artifacts of the Oxford University museum is a fascinating piece that has intrigued scholars and ...
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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
A small clay tablet from the site of Kish in Iraq reveals a student calculated the area of a triangle incorrectly 4,000 years ...
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Episode 15 - Early writing tablet
Most of the early clay tablets in our collection ... You cannot really do higher mathematics or even more complex forms of philosophical argument of the kind that I am interested in, unless ...