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Babylonian clay tablet YBC 7289 (c. 1800–1600 BCE) with annotations. The approximation of the square root of 2 is four sexagesimal figures, which is about six decimal figures. 1 + 24/60 + 51/60${}^2$ + 10/60${}^3$ = 1.41421296…¹

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Footnotes

1. “Photograph, illustration, and description of the root(2) tablet from the Yale Babylonian Collection”. Archived from the original on 13 August 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2006. ↩