However, the figures illustrating geo­metric problems were roughly drawn and the formulas may have been in­ correct. In the Babylonians’ calculations of areas, for example, we cannot tell whether their triangles were right triangles or whether their quadrilaterals were squares and, hence, whether their formulas were the right ones for the figures concerned.

The word “tell” in the passage is closest in meaning to?


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