Were the Babylonians better mathematicians than us?
A small clay tablet that's 3,700 years old may be about to make studying trigonometry much easier, thanks to the work of an Australian mathematician. Daniel Mansfield from University of New South Wales said the palm-sized tablet, covered in rows of tiny numbers in angular cuneiform script, simplifies the study of triangles from using angles and irrational numbers to simple ratios.
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