"3,700-year-old 'Indiana Jones' tablet reveals its secrets" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill  | 25 Aug 2017 10:12 a.m. PST |
"Plimpton 322 has puzzled mathematicians for more than 70 years, since it was realised it contains a special pattern of numbers called Pythagorean triples," says Dr. Daniel Mansfield of the School of Mathematics and Statistics in the UNSW Faculty of Science, in a statement… link |
| Stryderg | 25 Aug 2017 11:11 a.m. PST |
So it took them 70 years to figure out they had a college student's cheat sheet…make that: cheat tablet. |
| rmaker | 25 Aug 2017 11:26 a.m. PST |
I do have a little problem with the assertion that the use of base 60 make the fractions more accurate than the use of base 10. |
79thPA  | 25 Aug 2017 11:31 a.m. PST |
I don't know enough about math to comment one way or the other, but it is a pretty neat find. |
| Ed Mohrmann | 25 Aug 2017 11:31 a.m. PST |
I get a message that 'Foxnews continues to have a problem'
when I try the link. Oh well…not too important, I suppose… |
| Cacique Caribe | 25 Aug 2017 12:37 p.m. PST |
I think they've been stuck debating spelling and grammar since they discovered it. Dan
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| Patrick R | 25 Aug 2017 5:29 p.m. PST |
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| TKindred | 26 Aug 2017 7:15 a.m. PST |
I was hoping to Attend the Pythagorean Triples next year, but I can't figure out what angle to use to convince my wife to let me go……. |
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