Posted on 08/25/2017 3:41:48 AM PDT by C19fan
A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics which could change how we calculate today.
The tablet, known as Plimpton 332, was discovered in the early 1900s in Southern Iraq by the American archaeologist and diplomat Edgar Banks, who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
While I walk like an Egyptian, I blame the Babylonians for a lot of things...its just easy....
Wow - a sine from the past that may impact the future....
Think you’re going off on a tangent.
[P]erhaps we should view angular trigonometry as a social construct originating from the needs of Seleucid astronomy rather than a necessary and intrinsic aspect of geometry.Perhaps not. Who in their right mind ever insisted that classical trigonometry was the only correct way to express the relationships between angles and the lengths of triangles in Euclidean geometry? At best a strawman argument. Any sentient person should be able to see this. The Roman alphabet is not the only way to express the spoken word, but no one is in a hurry to replace it with something better, at least not yet.
I thought we stole math from the Africans.
How much of this knowledge did the current population retain?
The Greeks still don’t understand math in this decade. ;)
In the present US climate, I wonder if the tablet is safe at Columbia?
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I refuse to cosine a loan.....
(Sorry, it was the best I could do with what was left! LOL)
And I was even beaten to it by 45 seconds... *sigh*
So say the same leftists who brought us the new math and ruined the mathematical education of two generations American children. Now, no doubt, they will want to begin teaching third graders base-60 math immediately because they are in thrall to everything non-Western, not because base-60 is better than base-10 (which it is not), but because they hate Western civilization and are out to prove it inferior to every other civilization that has ever existed.
But Obama and and the US media say the muslims invented algebra.
[mohammed came along in 500 AD]
I thought we stole math from the Africans.
Please give it back to them, they’re struggling without it.
How about this?
I don’t go out in the sine, cos I don’t tan, I burn...
Roman alphabet is not the only way to express the spoken word, but no one is in a hurry to replace it with something better, at least not yet.
Then what are all these icons and emoticons that I don’t understand?
Will people stop with the puns for a secant?
You could have taken another angle.
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