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The Area and the Side I Added: Some old Babylonian Geometry

Duncan J. Melville (2005)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

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There was a standard procedure in Mesopotamia for solving quadratic problems involving lengths and areas of squares. In this paper, we show, by means of an example from Susa, how area constants were used to reduce problems involving other geometrical figures to the standard form.