3700 year old Babylonian tablet translated: trig tables

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3700 year old Babylonian tablet translated: trig tables Jun 29, 2023 4:03:36 GMT -5 Pom, karinothing, and 6 more like this

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This is so damn cool even if I remember nothing about trig. Turns out they were doing this math 1500 years before the Greeks. That's like finding, idk, a computer in the very early middle ages.

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Jalapeñomel Platinum Posts: 58,566 Likes: 54,820	3700 year old Babylonian tablet translated: trig tables Jun 29, 2023 7:04:17 GMT -5 via Tapatalk rubytue, basilosaurus, and 2 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jalapeñomel on Jun 29, 2023 7:04:17 GMT -5 Math is the universal language!
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aurora Elder Posts: 23,809 Likes: 31,937	3700 year old Babylonian tablet translated: trig tables Jun 29, 2023 12:40:06 GMT -5 via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by aurora on Jun 29, 2023 12:40:06 GMT -5 That's super cool!
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3700 year old Babylonian tablet translated: trig tables Jun 29, 2023 19:11:49 GMT -5 via mobile bugandbibs and jd15 like this

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Like finding an early medieval computer, eh? You should google the Antikythera mechanism. :-)

This is cool, but not terribly surprising given the Babylonians also had calculus: www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-01-29/ancient-babylonian-text-earliest-use-of-calculus-for-astronomy/7121548

Makes a person wonder what else the ancients knew that has been lost to time.

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