Ancient Trigonometric Table

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I never was good at math, but I always loved math. Those things that I didn't understand seemed to me as a very high mountain peak that is worth climbing just to see the view. Here we have a wonderful math teacher, our own mathworksheets@mathworksheets, who already expanded our views beyond expectations. But he had a predecessors…



Ancient Babylonians were better at trigonometry than we could even imagine. Australian scientists announced they have discovered the purpose of a 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet. It is a trigonometric table with the base of 60! This base allows much quicker and more precise calculations. It also shows that Old Babylonians know the Pythagorean theorem far before Pythagora!



And here are two scientist who explain their discovery:



I find this discovery a spectacular one. What would you say?



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