By Michael Irving August 25, 2017 Plimpton 322, a 3,700-year old clay tablet, has been found to be the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table UNSW/Andrew Kelly View 2 Images ...

The Plimpton 322 tablet We now know that the Babylonians studied trigonometry because we have a fragment of one of their trigonometric tables. Plimpton 322 is a broken clay tablet from the ancient ...

Scientists recently decoded a clay tablet from ancient Babylonia that dates to 3,700 years ago, finding that it contains the oldest trigonometric table in the world.

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet discovered by the real Indiana Jones has been revealed as the world’s oldest — and most accurate — trigonometric table. Mathematicians believe that the… ...

The Ancient Babylonians knew about a form of trigonometry more advanced than the modern-day version – about 1,000 years before its supposed invention by the Ancient Greeks, academics in ...

A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics which could change how we ...

About 3 700 years ago a Babylonian mathematician wrote a trigonometry table on a clay tablet that scientists say is more accurate than anything we have today. The table predates Pythagoras’s ...

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet discovered by the real Indiana Jones has been revealed as the world's oldest - and most accurate - trigonometric table. Mathematicians believe that the ...

Object Details maker Illinois Tool Works Inc. Description In the mid-twentieth century, American tool manufacturers sometimes distributed trigonometry tables that included advertisements for their ...

In the mid-twentieth century, American tool manufacturers sometimes distributed trigonometry tables that included advertisements for their products. This small paper pamphlet includes definitions of ...