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| Feb 22, 2019 at 8:08 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 24, 2015 at 9:08 | comment | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | The picture of the clay tablet "from Shush" in Wallis's article is, of course, the famous Plimpton 322, which is believed to come from Larsa. There are no indications at all that it has to do with the division of a circle into 360 degrees. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 16:24 | comment | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | This seems to be tablet TMS 2 (Friberg, A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts, p.218). Friberg does not observe any traces of the notion of an angle there. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 15:58 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |