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Incredible 3700-Year-Old Babylonian Clay Tablet Is World’s Oldest Example of Applied Geometry
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| AUGUST 4, 2021
| By UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Posted on 08/04/2021 8:55:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv
PinGGG!.............................
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posted on
08/04/2021 8:56:22 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Since Math is racist, I guess Racism has a long history in Mesopotamia as well.
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posted on
08/04/2021 8:57:59 AM PDT
by
MattMusson
(Sometimes the wind blows too much)
To: Red Badger
How do you say “get off my land!” in Babylonian?
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:00:10 AM PDT
by
I-ambush
(From the brightest star comes the blackest hole; you had so much to offer, did you offer your soul?)
To: Red Badger
Math was constantly rediscovered, by necessity, in many civilizations. If it is lost again it will be rediscovered again. The human mind has the ability for all kinds of things, if it is just asked to do them.
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:03:32 AM PDT
by
Wuli
To: All
That was my math assignment in 8th grade! I told the teacher I lost it and she didn’t believe me. Vindication at last.
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:08:24 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(To get out of this game, guys . . it looks like . . we're going to have to save Jumanji.)
To: Wuli
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:13:04 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
How many could do that today with a pencil and paper?
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:14:44 AM PDT
by
bgill
(Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
To: Red Badger
Yep...those ancients...just a bunch of post Neanderthals...we got kids who only know how to touch their phone to do stuff...without understanding...
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:15:38 AM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
To: BipolarBob
"Another tablet refers to a dispute between Sin-bel-apli ..... Was the other named Cosin-Tan-Apply?.............
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:15:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: bgill
In Base 60?......................
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:16:16 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
However, it is difficult to work with prime numbers bigger than 5 in the base 60 Babylonian number system.
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Interesting. I can understand humans using a base 10 system. Wonder how the Babylonians arrived at using a base 60 system.
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:17:03 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
To: Red Badger
I know that Freepers are hugely funny and hugely fantastic, but that piece of clay tablet is stunning. The second I laid eyes on it I knew what the clay tablet’s original author was talking about. Believe me or not, but in 1998 I saw paperwork about an ancient land dispute between Bosnian families that could have been identical to that drawing.
That tablet is an incredible historical piece and should be the subject of many graduate thesis’s(?).
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:20:33 AM PDT
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: Flick Lives
It took them two months...................
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:21:37 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:22:01 AM PDT
by
sauropod
(Amateurs built the ark; Professionals built the Titanic. Anon)
To: Wuli
"Math was constantly rediscovered"Yes. My wife was talking of the inventor of math. I pointed out to her it was invented by God & left for whoever found it.
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:25:08 AM PDT
by
HangThemHigh
(Entropy is not what it used to be.)
To: MattMusson
There was no evidence of critical race theory in this old Babylonian tablet so they must conclude they are racists
To: Red Badger
Strong proof that geometry is the seed from which all mathematics has sprung. As for Pythagoras, many historians regard him to be in a similar position to Euclid, the personage / school that assembled work and methods from past masters and publicized it under their own name(s).
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:30:08 AM PDT
by
SES1066
(Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
To: Blue Highway
It’s really so stunning to read an article for once about something that doesn’t reference CRT or global warming or whatever GD thing is in vogue this week and just take in the expressed pure marvel of discovery.
To: HangThemHigh
“Yes. My wife was talking of the inventor of math. I pointed out to her it was invented by God & left for whoever found it.”
Yes. The universe declares you are right.
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posted on
08/04/2021 9:44:26 AM PDT
by
Wuli
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