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This is Babylonian clay tablet represent some numerical approximation. Which one?

  1. Square root of 2

  2. cube root of 2

  3. cube root of 4

  4. Square root of 4
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Explanation

The Babylonian clay tablet YBC 7289 shows a geometric proof and approximation of the square root of 2, one of the earliest known representations of irrational numbers in mathematics.

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