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tiborsaas
on Dec 29, 2022
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Stone tablet shows Babylonians able to approximate...
I'm sure they didn't use floating point decimals :) I don't understand his confidence that this THE method.
adrian_b
on Dec 30, 2022
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Actually they were using
floating point
sexagesimals (base 60), where the exponent was usually not written, but understood from the context.
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