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Babylonian Tablet Proves Pythagoras Did Not Invent Pythagorian Theorem
- gus_massa 8y agoI think that it's not new that the "Pythagoras Theorem" was not discovered by Pythagoras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem#History The interesting part of this work is that they could interpret this table after a long time, and they discovered it is a "trigonometrical table". It's more a list of Pythagorean triplets (i.e. solution), ordered by angle. It's not a table of the sin and cos for each angle. Also, the claim that base 60 makes it more precise than base 10 is an exaggeration.