alleryStart learning →Babylonian cuneiform tablets for cubics held
ATables of logarithms only
BTables of sines and cosines
CTables of cubes and cube roots
DTables of square roots only
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Tables of cubes and cube roots
The tablets carried tables for calculating cubes and cube roots, which could help solve certain cubics.
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