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k_sze on Aug 30, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Don’t Fall for Babylonian Trigonometry Hype

What if it's just a page of math homework from Babylonian times? And not a special trig table at all?

What if?

jacobolus on Aug 30, 2017 [–]

That’s one of the previous interpretations. If you read this paper you’ll find out why these authors think that interpretation is implausible.

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