Saturday, August 26, 2017

3,700 year old Babylonian tablet shows that Mathematics is older than we thought

And that trigonometry was very, very old when the Greeks "invented" it.  And that Base 60 is good for something other than telling time.

Cool.

And since we're talking Babylonia, it demands the song with the most famous reference to Babylonia ...

7 comments:

  1. Old NFOAugust 26, 2017 at 5:23 PM

    Interesting find, and that video is hilarious!

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  2. SkipAugust 26, 2017 at 9:33 PM

    OT- Is Malwarebytes OK?

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  3. BorepatchAugust 26, 2017 at 10:11 PM

    Skip, I've used it several times in the past. I haven't looked at it lately but it had a good reputation a few years ago.

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  4. LindaGAugust 26, 2017 at 11:41 PM

    Hahahahaha! I remember when Steve Martin first performed that song.

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  5. drjimAugust 27, 2017 at 12:27 AM

    Malwarebytes is still going strong, and I have it on all the Windows computers I work on.

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  6. SkipAugust 27, 2017 at 1:01 AM

    Thanks guys.

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  7. Sean D SorrentinoAugust 27, 2017 at 1:28 PM

    Base 12 > Base 10

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