{"id":22307,"date":"2019-03-17T19:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T08:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22307"},"modified":"2019-03-17T19:54:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T08:54:24","slug":"3700-year-old-mystery-babylonian-stone-tablet-is-translated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22307","title":{"rendered":"3,700-Year-Old \u2018Mystery\u2019 Babylonian Stone Tablet Is Translated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Babylonian_Trigonometric_Table_Tablet.jpg\" alt=\"3,700-Year-Old \u2018Mystery\u2019 Babylonian Stone Tablet Is Translated\" class=\"wp-image-22308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Babylonian_Trigonometric_Table_Tablet.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Babylonian_Trigonometric_Table_Tablet-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>the Telegraph noted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However unlike today\u2019s trigonometry, Babylonian mathematics used a base 60, or sexagesimal system, rather than the 10, which is used today. Because 60 is far easier to divide by three, experts studying the tablet, found that the calculations are far more accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur research reveals that Plimpton 322 describes the shapes of right-angle triangles using a novel kind of trigonometry based on ratios, not angles and circles,\u201d Dr. Daniel Mansfield of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Science, said in a university news release. \u201cIt is a fascinating mathematical work that demonstrates undoubted genius. The tablet not only contains the world\u2019s oldest trigonometric table; it is also the only completely accurate trigonometric table, because of the very different Babylonian approach to arithmetic and geometry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/3700-year-old-mystery-babylonian-stone-tablet-is-translated_2300306.html\">https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/3700-year-old-mystery-babylonian-stone-tablet-is-translated_2300306.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Telegraph noted: However unlike today\u2019s trigonometry, Babylonian mathematics used a base 60, or sexagesimal system, rather than the 10, which is used today. Because 60 is far easier to divide by three, experts studying the tablet, found that the calculations are far more accurate. \u201cOur research reveals that Plimpton 322 describes the shapes of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=22307\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3,700-Year-Old \u2018Mystery\u2019 Babylonian Stone Tablet Is Translated&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22309,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22307\/revisions\/22309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}