Scientists from the University of New South Wales have shed light on the purpose of a mysterious clay tablet containing a trigonometric table created by the Babylonians a full 1,000 years earlier ...

The table of trigonometric values was made more than a thousand years before math historians thought trigonometry was invented.

It contains five-place tables of the common logarithms of numbers and of logarithms of sines, cosines, tangents and cotangents for every second of arc. There is also a shorter table of natural ...

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Scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3,700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, possibly used by ancient ...

“Our research shows it’s a trigonometric table so unfamiliar and advanced that in some respects it’s superior to modern trigonometry,” he said.

Explore Plimpton 322, the world's oldest trigonometric table, revealing ancient Babylonian mathematics' historical significance.

A 3,700-YEAR-old Babylonian clay tablet discovered by the real Indiana Jones has been revealed as the world's oldest - and most accurate - trigonometric table.

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

A 37000-YEAR-OLD Babylonian clay tablet mystery has been cracked by Australian researchers, revealing it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table. Since the discovery of the ...

On pages 4 and 5 we find four-place logarithms of numbers, then logarithms of sums and differences (Gaussian logarithms) also to four places, then follow tables of logarithmic trigonometric ...