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This Ancient Babylonian Tablet May Contain The First Evidence Of Trigonometry
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Mon, 2017-08-28 01:00
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"Trigonometry, the study of the lengths and angles of triangles, sends most modern high schoolers scurrying to their cellphones to look up angles, sines, and cosines. Now, a fresh look at a 3700-year-old clay tablet suggests that Babylonian mathematicians not only developed the first trig table, beating the Greeks to the punch by more than 1000 years, but that they also figured out an entirely new way to look at the subject."
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