KnowraBabylonian mathematicsLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to Babylonian mathematics, each with the reason it gives.All 16Broader topic 5Related 6Narrower topic 4Compared with 1BabyloniaRelated: Its computational methods supported administration, measurement, and astronomy in Babylonia.Decimal timeRelated: The inherited sexagesimal tradition helps explain conventional minutes and seconds.History of geometryRelated: Babylonian tablets preserve early solutions to problems involving lengths, areas, and right triangles.History of trigonometryRelated: Babylonian astronomical records supplied numerical traditions that later Greek trigonometry drew upon.Square root of 2Related: A Babylonian tablet records a remarkably accurate sexagesimal approximation to the square root of 2.0 (number)Related: Babylonian scribes used a placeholder mark in some positional numerals, not a fully developed zero number.