Hm, hard to tell from the popular press I've seen about this. People have been arguing about the meaning and use of Plymption 322 for decades. I don't know what's an actual advance and what's the result of the University of New South Wales PR department. --Michael On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 7:41 PM, Brent Meeker <meekerdb@verizon.net> wrote:
Scientists recently decoded a clay tablet from ancient Babylonia that dates to around 3,700 years ago, and found that it contains the oldest trigonometric table in the world.
https://www.livescience.com/60227-babylonian-clay-tablet-trigonometry.html
Brent
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