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by Sean Hayden » Sat Aug 26, 2017 4:08 pm
At least 1,000 years before the Greek mathematician Pythagoras looked at a right angled triangle and worked out that the square of the longest side is always equal to the sum of the squares of the other two, an unknown Babylonian genius took a clay tablet and a reed pen and marked out not just the same theorem, but a series of trigonometry tables which scientists claim are more accurate than any available today.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... y-of-study
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by pErvinalia » Sat Aug 26, 2017 4:42 pm
Fucken Greeks always bludging off others...
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by Svartalf » Sat Aug 26, 2017 4:43 pm
well, there's a reason why Mesopotamians and Persians had a reputation for being magicians by people who had so many mathematical geniuses among them...
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by Rum » Sat Aug 26, 2017 4:53 pm
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by laklak » Sat Aug 26, 2017 5:57 pm
Yahbut those Babylonians and Persians are like, you know, more brownish than Greeks. Well, most Greeks, some of 'em get a bit on the swarthy side.
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by Svartalf » Sat Aug 26, 2017 6:23 pm
Persions are not brown, they are tanned.
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by JimC » Sat Aug 26, 2017 9:48 pm
It's a complete beat up, really. Nothing more than a list of pythagorean triads and the subsequent side-length ratios, helped by the large number of factors available in base 60 arithmetic...
Not at all a "better trigonometry"
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by Brian Peacock » Sat Aug 26, 2017 10:04 pm
Svartalf wrote:well, there's a reason why Mesopotamians and Persians had a reputation for being magicians by people who had so many mathematical geniuses among them...
... yeah, they were aliens or time travellers from the future. I'm not sure which, but it was definitely one or the other.
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by pErvinalia » Sun Aug 27, 2017 7:41 am
The next programming thread should be called 'More Geek Woes'.
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by JimC » Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:14 am
A good parody would be "More Greek Hoes" but I can't be stuffed starting it...
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by rainbow » Sun Aug 27, 2017 9:49 am
Dunnit.
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by mistermack » Mon Aug 28, 2017 1:50 pm
It's all bollocks.
They'll be saying next that Archimedes wasn't the first Greek to have a bath.
Or the Trojans didn't invent the wooden horse.
Idiots !!
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