At least 1,000 years before the Greek mathematician #Pythagoras looked at a right angled triangle and worked out...
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At least 1,000 years before the Greek mathematician #Pythagoras looked at a right angled triangle and worked out that the square of the longest side is always equal to the sum of the squares of the other two, an unknown #Babylonian genius took a clay tablet and a reed pen and marked out not just the same theorem, but a series of #trigonometry tables which scientists claim are more accurate than any available today. https://buff.ly/2wMtkjG
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At least 1,000 years before the Greek mathematician #Pythagoras looked at a right angled triangle and worked out that the square of the longest side is always equal to the sum of the squares of the other two, an unknown #Babylonian genius took a clay tablet and a reed pen and marked out not just the same theorem, but a series of #trigonometry tables which scientists claim are more accurate than any available today. https://buff.ly/2wMtkjG
#geometry #mathematics #ancient #ancienthistory #mesopotamia
https://buff.ly/2wMtkjG
Actually only accurate because it lists only the whole {real} no's is not better than moderns because lacks the other sets. { A biased non-worthy conclusion by cherry-picking} If you take only the absolute values and ignore the no#s in between of course you will have accuracy, but will also lack full functionality.
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ReplyDeleteyes read about it, its interesting and might challenge our view of being definite about founders of the base on which our understandings rest upon
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