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3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet - guohua - 08-25-2017 This is Interesting I Think,,, it'll upset some Greeks I think. But Who Really Cares??? Quote:3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths - and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometryThis little tablet is what has caused them to change their way of thinking. Quote:A3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babyloniansdeveloped trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics which could change how we calculate today. Quote:“Our research reveals that Plimpton 322 describes the shapes of right-angle triangles using a novel kind of trigonometry based on ratios, not angles and circles,” said Dr Daniel Mansfield of the School of Mathematics and Statistics in the UNSW Faculty of Science.I found it interesting that > Tesla also Divide By Three's. RE: 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet - gordi - 08-25-2017 Cool as a very cool thing, wearing shades, on a unicycle... RE: 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet - Mystic Wanderer - 08-25-2017 The guest speaker on Open Minds, which airs on GAIA t.v., was talking about this last night. Don't expect me to learn a new math system, it scrambles my brain even thinking about it. RE: 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet - Spirit Scribe - 08-26-2017 First let me say that I hardly ever dare to approach math unarmed... armed with a calculator, that is. Although in the 6th grade I confused the heck out of my math teacher by coming up with my own way to do a specific type of problem instead of the "sanctioned" formula she gave us. It just didn't make sense her way, but I figured out a way that DID make sense to me. She even changed the numbers and she did the calculations her way, I did it my way, and I got it right every time. I don't even know what kind of math it was, lol! I wonder though, if the calculations with the 60-based system are more precise than the accepted 10-based system, if maybe I just hunted another number and used a different ratio like the above article mentions. Dang, maybe I was actually smart back then... Lord how times have changed!!! *Edit: I also failed the quizzes, even though my answers were right. I was supposed to show I could use the "official" way of thinking, not actually learn how to get the right answer! RE: 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet - Mystic Wanderer - 08-26-2017 Quote:*Edit: I also failed the quizzes, even though my answers were right. I was supposed to show I could use the "official" way of thinking, not actually learn how to get the right answer! @"Spirit Scribe" That's just wrong! Just like today, "they" want to brainwash the youth into thinking history is how they say... period! They don't want anyone thinking for themselves, even when they are teaching lies. |