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Re:An ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first eviden... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:00PM (#15103815)
> but given we have obscenely powerful computers it's probably useless to us as a practical matter.

Babylonian arithmetic methods have been used to give us our obscenely powerful computers.

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