Plimpton 322 is Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry

Mansfield, DF; Wildberger, NJ

Mansfield, DF (reprint author), UNSW, Sch Math & Stat, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

HISTORIA MATHEMATICA, 2017; 44 (4): 395

Abstract

We trace the origins of trigonometry to the Old Babylonian era, between the 19th and 16th centuries B.C.E. This is well over a millennium before Hippa......

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