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Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras (www.iflscience.com)
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A Babylonian tablet from around 1770 BC uses principles of the Pythagorean theorem, suggesting ancient Babylonians discovered it centuries before the famous Greek mathematician Pythagoras for whom it's named.

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[–] 43 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

it's not the fact that A^2 + B^2 = C^2 that's important, it's the proof

there's been evidence for ages that previous civilizations used it

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