Oldest example of applied geometry found in 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet
The tablet shows that ancient Babylonians used Pythagorean triples to survey plots of land a thousand years before Pythagoras was ...
The tablet shows that ancient Babylonians used Pythagorean triples to survey plots of land a thousand years before Pythagoras was ...
The more things change, the more they stay the same: manipulation isn't a new concept, it's been around since the ...
It shows Babylonians knew about Pythagorean theorem centuries before Pythagoras was even alive!
It tells the story of a disappointed Babylonian customer who was shipped low-quality copper ore. The letter, written in cuneiform ...
A German astrophysicist decoded ancient Babylonian tablets stuffed with computations. His analysis reveals that these were used by the ancient ...
Akkadian, or Assyro-Babylonian, is the oldest attested written language - the code for the cuneiform writing system. Texts written in ...
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