The oldest example of π=3+1/8 in Sumer: Calculation of the area of a circular plot

2016/10/10 by Kazuo Muroi, Muroi, Kazuo
Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO) #Mathematics and Applications

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1610.03380

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Abstract

In this paper I shall show that the formula 0:4,48 times circumference squared for the area of a circle, which occurs in a few Babylonian mathematical texts, can be traced back to at the latest the twenty-third century BCE.

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