Plimpton 322
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Plimpton 322
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Plimpton 322 is a Babylonian clay tablet, notable as containing an example of Babylonian mathematics. It has number 322 in the G.A. Plimpton Collection at Columbia University. This tablet, believed to have been written around 1800 BC, has a table of four columns and 15 rows of numbers in the cuneiform script of the period. This table lists two of the three numbers in what are now called Pythagorean triples, i.e., integers a, b, and c satisfying a + b = c. From a modern perspective, a method f
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Babylonian clay tablet of numbers in Pythagorean triples
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plimpton_322
date created:
2005-10-24T01:10:12Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T19:51:10Z
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