Post by WeAreAllOne on Sept 17, 2017 16:20:51 GMT -8
Ancient Babylonian tablet - world's first trig table
www.liveleak.com/view?i=08f_1504998788
(Sept. 9, 2017) 3,700-Year-Old Tablet Rewrites History
UNSW Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, most likely used by ancient mathematical scribes to calculate how to construct palaces, temples and stepped pyramids.
www.liveleak.com/view?i=08f_1504998788
(Sept. 9, 2017) 3,700-Year-Old Tablet Rewrites History
UNSW Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, most likely used by ancient mathematical scribes to calculate how to construct palaces, temples and stepped pyramids.
