Trigonometry allows one to systematically convert between measurements of angles and measurements of length, a topic that has interested mathematical astronomers from antiquity. Ancient Greeks also ...

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

Aug. 25 (UPI) --The ancient Babylonians - who lived from about 4,000 BCE in what is now Iraq - had a long forgotten understanding of right-angled triangles that was much simpler and more accurate than ...