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Sunday, August 27, 2017

Sunday In Babylon W/ Bouffant

by M. Bouffant     at 08:27
 Ron Cowen / Science: 
This ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first evidence of trigonometry
Discussion:
Andrew Liptak / The Verge:   An ancient clay tablet shows that Babylonian scholars might have invented trigonometry
Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard:   Did the Babylonians Beat the Greeks to Trigonometry By 1000 Years?
Sputnik International:   Forget Pythagoras! The Babylonians Knew Their Trigonometry Before the Greeks
George Dvorsky / Gizmodo:   Deciphered Ancient Tablet Reveals Babylonians' Mastery Over Mathematics
Labels: Decline and Falling Down, Down W/ Science, Entropy, Existential Agony, Free Speech Isn't Free, Oddities and Artifacts, Suffering, Total Buffoonery, Un-American Activities, War in ah Babylon

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