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[[Image:Ybc7289-bw.jpg|thumb|250px|right|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<sup>2</sup> + 10/60<sup>3</sup> = 1.41421296...<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://it.stlawu.edu/%7Edmelvill/mesomath/tablets/YBC7289.html |title=Photograph, illustration, and description of the ''root(2)'' tablet from the Yale Babylonian Collection |access-date=2 October 2006 |archive-date=13 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813054036/http://it.stlawu.edu/%7Edmelvill/mesomath/tablets/YBC7289.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>]]
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