"The area of a circle" tablet
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"The area of a circle" tablet
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Published 2019-05-03T14:29:23+00:00
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This is a student’s mathematical exercise tablet showing work for determining the area of a circle. It comes from the old Baylonian period.
Collection label reads “The formula used is A = c² / 4π. The value of π used is 3, an approximation familiar from other texts including the Bible.”
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| Date published | 03/05/2019 |
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| Title | "The area of a circle" tablet |
| Accession | YPM BC 021367 |
| Period | Old Babylonian |
| Medium | Clay |
| Credit | Scanned and processed by Chelsea Alene Graham in 2017 |
| Record | https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-BC-021367 |
| Place | Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History |
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