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Since Math is racist, I guess Racism has a long history in Mesopotamia as well.
How do you say “get off my land!” in Babylonian?
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.
That was my math assignment in 8th grade! I told the teacher I lost it and she didn’t believe me. Vindication at last.
How many could do that today with a pencil and paper?
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...
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.
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(?).
Cool beans!
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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Crib notes for Jerry’s move smuggled into the bedroom by a Babylonian George Costanza . . . at bottom is the swirl at the end.
Crib notes for Jerry’s move smuggled into the bedroom by a Babylonian George Costanza . . . at bottom is the swirl at the end.
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You’ll need to sign an NDA (pretty mild, 0.01% of the project’s expected duration) for further details.
I’m working on the patent application and the attorney says I need to expand its scope, I need a bit of help on some of the finer details and the further enabling technology.
Looks like a peanut butter cookie.
their unique base 60 number system means that only some Pythagorean shapes can be used,”
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This has been longly fascinating to me. Base 60 is so central to so much today. Pretty soon it will be called white supremacist, or racist.
60 minutes (both in time and in angles)
60 seconds (see above)
360 days in a year (close enough, and it is possible that the years got longer, IMO)
24 hours goes into 60 exactly 2.5 times (under the old math from my youth)
360 degrees in a circle
These people were not primitive and barbaric as we were frequently told. In fact, mankind has been going downhill from the Creation described in the Book of Genesis.
Good day!
I want to know who dropped it and cracked the tablet!
After reading the article I have to say that I am dumber then someone from 3,700 years ago that only had clay and a stick to work with.....
If he were alive today he would be a very successful youtuber.