Babylonian Mathematics/Examples/Sextic Equation/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Example of Babylonian Mathematics
David Wells reports in his Curious and Interesting Puzzles of $1992$ that this example (once translated into the modern notation as presented here) comes from a Babylonian clay tablet dating from about $1600$ BCE.
He gives no further details.
Sources
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Dividing a Field