Ancient Babylonian tablet - world's first trig table

hahaha the tablet is interesting but the bit about "might make our calculations better" is utter bollocks. you know we have fractions, right? you can just write 1/3 it doesn't matter if it's infinite recurring, it's still 1/3rd. computers even use that in floating point maths. no one is going to base 60

Just coming back into fashion? It's used in engineering and architecture to this day. If you design a crankshaft, the figures would be an eyesore if we didn't use Babylonian system. And Nicola Tesla seemed to have a fetish for this system. He chose 60Hz for AC for reasons.

Fitzschnitzelwitz, is that you?

Pitágoras era maya y gigante, su nombre "Pita-Wara" pita, rojo y wara, guerrero. Guerrero rojo. Los mayas fundaron Sumeria y Babilonia, después de haber instruido a los Brahmanes en la India.

Of course, 1/4 has the exact decimal expansion 0.25. However, when Mansfield says that there are only two exact fractions in decimal, 1/5 and 1/2, I take it as simply meaning that those two are the only bases on which exact fractions in decimal rest, 2 and 5 being the only prime factors of 10. Base 60 adds the prime factor 3. So I disagree with Evelyn Lamb in Scientific American in characterizing this as outright dishonest; it's just an oversimplification in speech instead of writing.

I am from iraq
I really aproud of what my ancestors did ... unfortunately there are more than 22 thousands site still undiscovered . and the government doesn’t care

The Babs got it from the Sumerians and the Sumerians got it form the Indus Valley and the Indu Valley got it from the Chinese and the Chinese got it from the E.T.s and the E.T.s got it from the Gods and the Gods got it from their Gods and their Gods got it from a pig wearing lipstick.

Bravo!!!! 👋👋👋👋👋

They knew not Pythagorean theorem but something else taring at our blind and idiotic faces.
Edit:after years this has nothing absolutely no impact, yet This is basically telling us that we are nt onlybgetting weaker physically but mently and logically the ancientq Babylonia's we're more intelligent than modern day

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Good onya.

cuneiform tablets are copies of copies, copied by the greeks!

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Theoretical nonsense

This explanation of Plympton 322 as a trigonometric table was proposed over a century ago. It's not new, and historians reject it.

Does this mean the Babylonians used a 24 hr day with a 60 minute hour

Let me know when you find the Babylonian proof of the Pythagorean theorem. 👍

Well done, Daniel. Is there a transcription of the tablet comprehensible by a mere B Sc (Tech)?

Today's Iraqis are descendants of great civilizations like Sumer, Akad, Babylon, and Assyria. Which are considered a minority these days.
Somehow they started calling themselves Arabs, following the Islamic invasion in the 7th century. Why ???

So, why do we still call it Pythagoras' theory, when we now know it was a Babylonian discovery !!!

Amazing

I watched this guy in a lecture talking about how he pretended to be caught masturbating so that he could stop computers being installed once.

a hindu down in the comments: tHeY MusT hAvE StoLEn FRoM InDIa

I am Chaldean Babylonian, this makes me so proud of my great ancestors.

How'd i get here

Nice work guys! But!!! We already know it from old buildings around the world and especially Europe. Stop waisting your time on this))

Im also open to the Great Pyramid math, the royal cubit is based on the knowledge of the meter and pi!

Love this

Great discovery! However, it is a scientific fact that there was a great precataclysmic civilization... that means that they surely knew THE FUCKING BASICS in trigonometry.

Greeks know that they did not invent everything, they just managed to preserve knowledge and their ancient herritage.

Moreover, the tablet doesnt prove the theorem, it just verifies some analogies without any formula or something. Measuing sides of a triangle and recording them in a stone doesnt mean that you know the formula... DAaaaah captain obvious again...

Finally, base sixty, is not for any reason more preferable than base ten... this is a total unscientific bullshit. We have fractions for a reason. taking 10 and dividing by 3 leads to irrational number the same way as taking 60 and dividing by 9 or whatever... Someone with a phd to be called "Dr" should know about basic arithmetic....

It took thousands of years until civilization reaches Greece. Then whatever they learnt they claimed or other Europeans claimed is from them. Thats they culture. Just like when European went to America and Australia claimed they discovered them.

This is such bullshit.

By the rivers of babylon, there we sat down
Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered zion

I always didn't like the approach we are heading to. It always looked too complicated for nothing. We are getting more and more materialistic as time passes on. They used abstract logic to solve problems too. Duality works...

Mathematicians from our current time are just stupid donkeys in comparison to such obvious genius as Babylonians, and probably most of ancient civilisations, as their buildings and other marvel founded prove it. It is not the first time, from far that such a discover crash our certitudes . How could so called scientists, never think to count in base Sixty for everything ? Professors and teachers, you still are so insignifiant !

Well done Aussies. I'm still amazed that the very first civilisation we know of, also had all of the main...symptoms (can't think of a better word right now) of civilisation: writing, currency, accounting, schools, and now the best trigonometry table ever!

‘It’s rare that the ancient world teaches us something new’ Please! Get out of your head. We have learnt a lot and are still learning from the ancient world. There is nothing new under the sun

Wow, so base 60 arithmetic allow us to represent irrational numbers with finitely many digits. That is amazing! Also false, but surely amazing!

Ancient Vedic culture of India knew all this since the beginning of time

Sumerians tablet, not Babylonian. Sumerian tablets do have also the original stories which we call Torah, Bible and Quran stories.

using base of 10, (1/3= .33333333 to infinity thats problimatic). While using base of 60 (1/3 = 20 the answer is exact number)

How is it superior to modern trigonometry? Bullshit.

This really is pretty badass.

Is it possible they figured out the clockwork of the earth itself?    Saturn and Neptune both have Hexagonal patterns above their Poles- Maybe the Earth Did/Does?   Bees certainly make it work-

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Amazing!

Don't stop being you!!!

The work of the ancestors of the modern Assyrian people!

my ancestors at it again

60 divided by 3 is 20 yes but
60 divided by 7 is 8.571429
60 divided by 8 is 7.57
60 divided by 9 is 6.666667