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Mathematical mystery of ancient Babylonian clay tablet solved
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| 08-24-2017
| Provided by: University of New South Wales
Posted on 08/25/2017 9:41:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Pretty cool how smart ancient civilizations were...
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posted on
08/25/2017 9:47:56 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: 2banana
Nothing is ever new under the Sun ...
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/25/2017 9:49:43 AM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
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To: 2banana
When your life depends on getting the math right.................you get the math right...............
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posted on
08/25/2017 9:50:25 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: IWontSubmit
... we see a simpler, more accurate trigonometry that has clear advantages over our own." An I wasted all that time in school on the old method, sine, cosine, tangent crap........................
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posted on
08/25/2017 9:52:13 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
What? were Babylonians Black, gay, m*slim, transsexual or peanut allergic? is this great because the Greeks are White?
I don’t care, and there is no proof that the Greeks didn’t develop it first.
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posted on
08/25/2017 9:53:56 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
To: I want the USA back
I don’t care, and there is no proof that the Greeks didn’t develop it first."Plimpton 322 predates Hipparchus by more than 1000 years,".................
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posted on
08/25/2017 9:55:30 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: I want the USA back
The Greeks developed what we now call traditional trigonometry.
The Babylonians developed a different type of trig..................
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posted on
08/25/2017 9:57:01 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/25/2017 10:01:38 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: Red Badger
Interesting tablet.
But I hope everyone caught the “typo” in the fourteenth row (third column).
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posted on
08/25/2017 10:05:29 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
To: ClearCase_guy
The scribe transposed the < with the >...................
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posted on
08/25/2017 10:06:48 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
And why did they need such a base 60 math system in the first place? Or was it a remnant of a previous civilization as yet undiscovered?
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posted on
08/25/2017 10:08:50 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Red Badger
Who left the friggin Dorito on the tablet?
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posted on
08/25/2017 10:09:02 AM PDT
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bar sin·is·ter
(Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/25/2017 10:14:00 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: Red Badger
Babylonian Nerds!!
Nerds!!
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posted on
08/25/2017 10:20:05 AM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: lonevoice
To: 2banana
The Babylonians invented the iPad.
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posted on
08/25/2017 10:26:40 AM PDT
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bar sin·is·ter
(Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
To: bar sin·is·ter
Sheldon...................
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posted on
08/25/2017 10:28:36 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: Red Badger
Mesopotamian civilization was totally unknown (outside the Bible) until a couple of centuries ago. It was the first since it had the first cities. We have just begun to scratch the surface of it.
Unfortunately, there was near constant war between these cities then empires which wound up weakening it so badly that the Persians under Cyrus (with the aid of the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity) destroyed it.
Civilizations have almost always been destroyed by invaders from the North. Ours may be unique.
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posted on
08/25/2017 10:29:13 AM PDT
by
arrogantsob
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