How did the Babylonians know √2 up to six digits?
The greatest known computational accuracy in the ancient world
There’s an ancient Babylonian clay tablet from 1800-1600 BC that contains the square root of two with 99.9999% precision.
How did they compute it?
Let me show you:
A quick note. You might heard that I’ll teach a live 4-hour workshop about the Mathematics of Machine Learning on January 24th, organized by Packt.
I have a 30% last-minute discount code for you, exclusive to the subscribers of The Palindrome. The code is valid until January 22th, 16:00
The entire workshop will focus on building a linear regression model from scratch. Yes, I know: linear regression is not exactly state-of-the-art, but we’ll go into unprecedented depths, mastering the mathematical foundations of machine learning in the process:
vectors and matrices,
vectorized code,
optimization,
gradient descent,
and many more low-level details that are often overlooked, but give you a massive advantage in the field.
As a bonus, you’ll also receive
a digital copy of the Mathematics of Machine Learning book,
the full recording of the workshop,
and the Jupyter Notebooks that are created live.
Hope to see you there!
Cheers,
Tivadar