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 ...

It then gives tables to five places of values of the six trigonometric functions mentioned, as well as a table of decimal equivalents. In addition to this material, the pamphlet has a section on ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the mid-twentieth century, ...

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

This Babylonian tablet, known as Plimpton 322, is the world’s oldest—and most accurate—trigonometric table, according to research published this week in Historia Mathematica.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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