[HN Gopher] Stone tablet shows Babylonians able to approximate [...
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       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)
        
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       | 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).
        
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