Describing their work in Historica Mathematica, the researchers call the tablet "a trigonometric table of a completely unfamiliar kind and... ahead of its time by thousands of years." What made it ...

According to the researchers, Plimpton 322 is a trig table, similar to the ones seen in every high school math textbook, except Plimpton 322 uses triangles instead of circles and angles.

Our new research, published in Historia Mathematica, shows that the Babylonians were able to construct a trigonometric table using only the exact ratios of sides of a right-angled triangle.

Dr Daniel Mansfield with the 3,700-year-old trigonometric table Credit: UNSW “Our research reveals that Plimpton 322 describes the shapes of right-angle triangles using a novel kind of ...

Scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3,700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, possibly used by ancient ...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—A 3,700-year-old cuneiform tablet housed at Columbia University is inscribed with the world’s oldest and most accurate working trigonometric table, according to a report in ...

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. The tablet ...

He added: "The tablet not only contains the world's oldest trigonometric table; it is also the only completely accurate trigonometric table, because of the very different Babylonian approach to ...

Table of Logarithms and Anti-logarithms (Four Figures), 1 to 10,000. Arranged by Major-Gen. J. C. Hannyngton. Pp. iv + 41. (London: C. and E. Layton, n.d.). Price 1s ...