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\|	\|	YBC 7289 Introduction (A pdf version of this post appears at the end of this post.) We propose a one-shot calculation of ?2 using Babylonian mathematics. An Old-Babylonian (OB) tablet YBC 7289 (from around 1800 B.C. to 1600 B.C.) contains the approximation B = 1 + 24/60 + 51/602 + 10/603 = 30547/21600 for ?2....	6.5 parsecs away Travel
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\|	\|	www.jeremykun.com Learning to Love Complex Numbers \| Math Programming	9.4 parsecs away Travel
\|	\|	This post is intended for people with a little bit of programming experience and no prior mathematical background. So let's talk about numbers. Numbers are curious things. On one hand, they represent one of the most natural things known to humans, which is quantity. It's so natural to humans that even newborn babies are in tune with the difference between quantities of objects between 1 and 3, in that they notice when quantity changes much more vividly than other features like color or shape.	9.4 parsecs away Travel
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