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Plimpton 322 Tablet
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Title
Plimpton 322 Tablet
Description
This is an Ancient Babylonian clay tablet, named Plimpton 322 for its numbering in the G.A. Plimpton Collection at Columbia University. It is thought to contain a table of Pythagorean triplets or numbers that satisfy the three sides of a right triangle. The Babylonians counted in base 60, featured on the tablet.
Source
Wikimedia Commons; http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/courses/m446-03/pl322/pl322.html
Date
1800 BCE
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