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New Discovery On Babylonian Mathematics
The Babs knew about the right angled triangle theorem (previously credited to Pythagoras) and made the world's first trig tablet.

So they knew it's theorem 1,000 previous to Pythagoras and more important, were able to avoid fractions by using base 60 rather than decimals.

Interesting.

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