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Babylonian tablet 'Plimpton 322' will make studying maths easier

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Published: 25 Aug 2017 › Updated: 25 Aug 2017Babylonian tablet 'Plimpton 322' will make studying maths easier

Babylonian tablet 'Plimpton 322' will make studying maths easier

Plimpton 322

UNSW Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, most likely used by ancient mathematical scribes to calculate how to construct palaces, temples and stepped pyramids.

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