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3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths - and shows the Greeks [tr]
UK Telegraph ^
| August 24, 2017
| Sarah Knapton
Posted on 08/25/2017 3:41:48 AM PDT by C19fan
A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics which could change how we calculate today.
The tablet, known as Plimpton 332, was discovered in the early 1900s in Southern Iraq by the American archaeologist and diplomat Edgar Banks, who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: ancientmath; babylonian; base60; cuneiform; edgarbanks; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; math; plimpton332; trigonometry
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To: jalisco555
I hear ya! I try to get something serious in and all they’re interested in is ankles.
To: trebb
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08/25/2017 5:55:59 AM PDT
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super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: C19fan
which could change how we calculate today. Ah, so now I get why my check book never balances. Actually, I gave up trying years ago.
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08/25/2017 5:59:12 AM PDT
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super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: LibWhacker
I’ve always thought base 8 would have been better but then that would have meant that humans did not have thumbs, which would mean that we would still be swinging in trees and would have no use for base anything. Hmmmm....
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08/25/2017 6:02:03 AM PDT
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super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: The Truth Will Make You Free
We have too many here going off on tangents.
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08/25/2017 6:08:01 AM PDT
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bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: misanthrope
Hillary clinton.... secant seem to ever win an election.
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08/25/2017 6:12:56 AM PDT
by
BRL
To: super7man
all your base are belong to us.
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posted on
08/25/2017 6:14:50 AM PDT
by
damper99
To: super7man
Base 10 is feminist. Base 11 would be the more natural masculan base to work off of
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posted on
08/25/2017 6:15:12 AM PDT
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BRL
To: misanthrope
I refuse to cosine a loan..... Don't go off on a tangent...
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posted on
08/25/2017 6:29:55 AM PDT
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Prov1322
(Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
To: C19fan
Why did the Babylonians create this tablet? What was their angle?
To: Teacher317
What am I missing here.....It just doesnt add up to me....
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posted on
08/25/2017 6:50:14 AM PDT
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M-cubed
To: Teacher317
A beach love triangle consists of two tangents and acute angel.
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08/25/2017 6:52:15 AM PDT
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bunkerhill7
((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
To: dljordan; C19fan
dljordan:
"I thought we stole math from the Africans." Yes, Pythagoras did, and also from native Americans:
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08/25/2017 7:05:30 AM PDT
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BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective...)
To: C19fan
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posted on
08/25/2017 7:08:42 AM PDT
by
bar sin·is·ter
(Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
To: dljordan; C19fan
Not to mention, from women:
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08/25/2017 7:08:56 AM PDT
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BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective...)
To: bunkerhill7
"A beach love triangle consists of two tangents and acute angel." Oh! But what is, pray tell, the angle of their dangle proportional to?
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08/25/2017 7:16:53 AM PDT
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BroJoeK
(a little historical perspective...)
To: Does so
The Greeks never developed a word for taxes!
To: Teacher317
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posted on
08/25/2017 7:31:16 AM PDT
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PLMerite
("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
To: C19fan
Isn’t it evil to have symbols and monuments from the past? Why were these tablets preserved? /s
To: Teacher317
Is it a loan for an ark? You want us to arcosine?
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