Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study
www.theguardian.com
Dating from 1,000 years before Pythagoras’s theorem, the Babylonian clay tablet is a trigonometric table more accurate than any today, say researchers
  • harmbugler@piefed.socialEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Interesting that their mathematics was base 60. I sometimes wonder how different our mathematics would be, had we evolved with 12 fingers instead of 10.