This was an attempt by the Babylonians to approximate a particular number.

Number Theory Level 2

What number was the Babylonians trying to approximate? {\color{#D61F06}\text{What number was the Babylonians trying to approximate?}}

You need to imagine a sexagesimal punctuation between the first digit and the remaining digits.

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Babylonian numerals

The correct answer is the closest to the approximation.

The golden ratio The reciprocal of the Euler-Mascheroni constant Square root of 2 One half of e

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The square root of 2. FromDigits [ { 1 , 24 , 51 , 10 } , 60 ] 60 . 3 ≈ 1.41421 \frac{\text{FromDigits}[\{1,24,51,10\},60]}{60.^3} \approx 1.41421 .

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