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Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study
by Maev Kennedy

The Guardian    Translate This Article
24 August 2017

On 24 August 2017 The Guardian reported: At least 1,000 years before the Greek mathematician Pythagoras looked at a right angled triangle and worked out that the square of the longest side is always equal to the sum of the squares of the other two, an unknown Babylonian genius took a clay tablet and a reed pen and marked out not just the same theorem, but a series of trigonometry tables which scientists claim are more accurate than any available today. The 3,700-year-old broken clay tablet survives in the collections of Columbia University, and scientists now believe they have cracked its secrets. The team from the University of New South Wales in Sydney believe that the four columns and 15 rows of cuneiform -- wedge shaped indentations made in the wet clay --represent the world's oldest and most accurate working trigonometric table, a working tool which could have been used in surveying, and in calculating how to construct temples, palaces, and pyramids. Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of science, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

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