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Babylonian scholars may have invented Trigonometry

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  • #16
    Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
    It is generally accepted as primitive form of trig, probably developed in engineering buildings.
    Read the PDF. Its author claims, "I show that the popular view of it as some sort of trigonometric table cannot be correct."
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    • #17
      UPI did a pretty good job explaining it.
      https://www.upi.com/Science_News/201...2181503668755/

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      • #18
        Pythagorean triples can be easily calculated.
        Side A being the short leg of the right triangle. Side B being the long leg. Side C being the hypotenuse, side opposite the right angle.
        Pythagorean theorem being A2 + B2 = C2

        Where the integer difference between C - B = n. Were A / n => an integer value of 2. And A and n must both be either odd or even.

        (A2 - n2) / ( 2 x n) = B and B + n = C.

        So if we make A = 9 and n = 1.

        B = 40 and C = 41.
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        • #19
          Originally posted by 37818 View Post
          Pythagorean triples can be easily calculated.
          Side A being the short leg of the right triangle. Side B being the long leg. Side C being the hypotenuse, side opposite the right angle.
          Pythagorean theorem being A2 + B2 = C2

          Where the integer difference between C - B = n. Were A / n => an integer value of 2. And A and n must both be either odd or even.

          (A2 - n2) / ( 2 x n) = B and B + n = C.

          So if we make A = 9 and n = 1.

          B = 40 and C = 41.
          True in today' math, but what's the point?
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          • #20
            Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
            True in today' math, but what's the point?
            No reason other than . . . . The tablet has a table of triangle triples. And I remembered having stumbling upon an easy way to calculate such triples.
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