The Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with numbers written in cuneiform script. The Babylonian-era tablet lists Pythagorean triples. (CN) — A 3,700-year-old clay tablet contains a curious list of Pythagorean ...
“With this new tablet, we can actually see for the first time why they were interested in geometry: to lay down precise land boundaries,” says researcher Daniel Mansfield. UNSW Sydney Markings on a ...