Babylonians

Ancient tablet proves that the Babylonians knew the Pythagorean theorem long before Pythagoras

(ORDO NEWS) — The tablet demonstrates that the Babylonians knew the Pythagorean theorem even before Pythagoras. The tablet is engraved with the dimensions of a piece of land, calculated using trigonometric methods and Pythagorean triplets: this is the oldest evidence of geometry ever discovered. When four thousand years ago a Babylonian land surveyor engraved the boundaries of some land on a tablet, he probably did not imagine that his work…