#OpChangeTheWorld2 🌍 Babylonian Tablet
Since the discovery of the famous 3700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, known as Plimpton 322, in the early 1900's the mystery surrounded what is used the "triangular" code. But scientists at the University of New South Wales have cracked the code, revealing that it was probably used by former mathematical scribes to calculate how to build palaces and temples and build canals.
Plimpton 322 puzzled mathematicians for over 70 years, since it was realized that it contains a special pattern of numbers called Pythagoras triplets," said Dr. Daniel Mansfield of the School of Mathematics and Statistics of The Faculty of Science of the UNSW in a statement. The tablet contains not only the oldest trigonometric table in the world, it is also the only precise trigonometric table, because of the Babylonian approach that is very different from arithmetic and geometry. Dr. Mansfield was looking for material to use in the classroom where he taught mathematics when he met earlier research on the tablet "purely by chance".
Like other mathematicians, he recognized that he was likely to be a kind of trigonometry but could not understand how. It was the help of a colleague in the corridor who gave him an advantage over other researchers who had tried to understand the tablet. What was different was Professor Norman Wildberger. Prof. Wildberger has already done a lot of work on trigonometry based on ratios, rather than angles and circles as we currently understand it - and this has proven to be the key to cracking the code.
Source : www.news.com.au
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