[HN Gopher] Stone tablet shows Babylonians able to approximate [... ___________________________________________________________________ Stone tablet shows Babylonians able to approximate [?]2 with 99.9999% accuracy Author : picture Score : 9 points Date : 2022-12-29 22:22 UTC (37 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (twitter.com) (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com) | Buttons840 wrote: | I don't understand the percentage. What, for example, would an | approximation that was only 20% accurate look like? | psychphysic wrote: | It would mean their error would be less than it'd look like | 1.2*sqrt(2). ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-12-29 23:00 UTC)