Saturday, December 18, 2010

Pythagoras, a math genius? Not by Babylonian standards

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/17/old.babylonian.math/index.html?hpt=C2

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.

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