Applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet

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This is quite an interesting discovery. Australian mathematician Dr Daniel Mansfield has been studying the 3700 year old Babylonian tablet known as Si.427.
It appears the tablet depicts a piece of land being sold and as such describes the area in topographical and geographical detail. In doing so it utilised Pythagorean triples - some 1000 years before Pythagoras made note of his theories.

Tablet Si.427 joins tablet Plimpton 322 in demonstrating similar ancient examples of trigonometry.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/05/au...

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Pythagorean triple. Every day's a learning day, thanks for that.

I've got one in my GiT Up!
Or perhaps a(nother) rare Yes bootleg live album

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[FourWheelDrift]

In that good age old tradition. Pythagoras copied someone else's homework.

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FourWheelDrift said:

In that good age old tradition. Pythagoras copied someone else's homework.

Pythagoras is just another Edison