A Babylonian clay trigonometry tablet and a reed pen precedes the Pythagorean Theorem by at least 1,000 years and is accurate even today, Guardian reports.
According to the relevant article, scientists seem to have deciphered the 3,700-year-old broken clay tablet, which belongs to the collections of Columbia University.
A University of New South Wales in Sydney team argue that the four columns and 15 rows of cuneiform – wedge shaped indentations made in the wet clay – represent the world’s oldest and most accurate working trigonometric table, a tool which could have been used in surveying, and in calculating how to construct temples, palaces and pyramids, the Guardian says.
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