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Re:An ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first eviden... by jacobolus on Friday August 25, 2017 @05:44PM (#15102479)
> Friberg would be precisely correct — the tablet contains no ratios of side lengths, only ratios of "quadrances"

Haha. Someone should email him to say so. :-P

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