Has anyone found the source for that tablet? All I have found is this:
>Note that quite a few descriptions on Babylonian tablets seem to cite a translation of a Pythagorean algorithm from a ca. 1900BC tablet by a Dennis Ramsey – I have not been able to find the original source of this anywhere.[0]
The linked arctile cites wikipedia and bible-history.com. This book[1] misquotes the supposed tablet as being ycb 7289, probably because these tablets are referenced next to each other on wikipedia.
>4 is the length and 5 the diagonal. What is the breadth ?
Its size is not known.
4 times 4 is 16.
5 times 5 is 25.
You take 16 from 25 and there remains 9.
What times what shall I take in order to get 9 ?
3 times 3 is 9.
3 is the breadth.
That doesn't appear to be in your link – am I wrong? I only see numbers there and it appears to be talking about something else entirely.
>Note that quite a few descriptions on Babylonian tablets seem to cite a translation of a Pythagorean algorithm from a ca. 1900BC tablet by a Dennis Ramsey – I have not been able to find the original source of this anywhere.[0]
The linked arctile cites wikipedia and bible-history.com. This book[1] misquotes the supposed tablet as being ycb 7289, probably because these tablets are referenced next to each other on wikipedia.
This[2] website says it's in the British museum.
[0]https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/author/spqr/
[1]https://books.google.com/books?id=XDBCEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT257&lpg=...
[2]https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Babylonian_...