Thursday, 5 August 2021

Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before Pythagoras

Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before Pythagoras

The ancient Babylonians understood key concepts in geometry, including how to make precise right-angled triangles. They used this mathematical know-how to divide up farmland – more than 1000 years before the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, with whom these ideas are associated.

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