(CNN) -- Over 1,000 years before Pythagoras was calculating the length of a hypotenuse, sophisticated scribes in Mesopotamia were working with the same theory to calculate the area of their farmland.
Most people don’t remember math class, but they do remember Pythagoras. Greek philosopher and mathematician, he is credited with one of the handiest formulae any school student could know: A squared ...
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Two American Teenage Girls May Have Cracked a 2,000-Year-Old Math Puzzle With a Stunning New Pythagoras Proof
For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because ...
The exhibition of 13 ancient Babylonian tablets, titled ‘Before Pythagoras” The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics’, opened at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World ...
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Two American Teenage Girls Challenge 2,000 Years of Mathematics with a Groundbreaking Proof of Pythagoras’ Theorem
In an astonishing breakthrough, two young students from Louisiana have done what many thought was impossible: proving Pythagoras’ theorem using only trigonometry. Their discovery has rocked the world ...
If the cost of digging a trench is 9 gin, and the trench has a length of 5 ninda and is one-half ninda deep, and if a worker’s daily load of earth costs 10 gin to move, and his daily wages are 6 se of ...
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