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3700-year old Babylonian Tablet Confirms Pythagoras Did Not Invent the Theorem Bearing His Name
• arcleinAs The Guardian reports, researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney claim the four columns and 15 rows of cuneiform "represent the world's oldest and most accurate working trigonometric table, a working tool which could have been used in surveying, and in calculating how to construct temples, palaces and pyramids."