Plimpton 322
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Plimpton 322 is a Babylonian clay tablet, believed to have been written around 1800 BC, that contains a mathematical table written in cuneiform script. Each row of the table relates to a Pythagorean t
The Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with numbers written in cuneiform script
Babylonian mathematics
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Babylonian mathematics is the mathematics developed or practiced by the people of Mesopotamia, as attested by sources surviving mainly from the Old Babylonian period to the Seleucid period from the la
Plimpton 322
…calculations, provide support for this proposal. Most current scholars consider a number-theoretic motivation to be anachronistic, given what is known of Babylonian mathematics as a whole. The proposal that Plimpton 322 is a trigonometric table is ruled out for similar reasons, given that the Babylonians appear not to have had…
Babylonian clay tablet YBC 7289 with annotations. The diagonal displays an approximation of the square root of 2 in four sexagesimal figures, 1 24 51 10, which is good to about six decimal digits. 1 + 24/60 + 51/602 + 10/603 = 1.41421296... The tablet also gives an example where one side of the square is 30, and the resulting diagonal is 42 25 35 or 42.4263888...
Clay tablet, mathematical, geometric-algebraic, similar to the Pythagorean theorem. From Tell al-Dhabba'i, Iraq. 2003–1595 BC. Iraq Museum
Clay tablet, mathematical, geometric-algebraic, similar to the Euclidean geometry. From Tell Harmal, Iraq. 2003–1595 BC. Iraq Museum