Historical analysis reveals circular sector and segment area calculations in ancient Mesopotamia, indicating geometric knowledge predated Archimedes by over a millennium.
Archimedes’ treatise Measurement of a Circle is considered the oldest known text concerning circular sectors. We show that the areas of circular sectors and segments were calculated more than a thousand years earlier in ancient Mesopotamia.
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