KM 89409

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The world it comes from

Nebuchadnezzar, exile, late astronomy.

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From the same catalogue range (near P235151)

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — KM 89409. This record has no stored scholarly English translation; the existence of published translations has not been checked; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (P235151) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no English translation stored at ingestion. P-number P235151..

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~1800 BCE

Plimpton 322

Whatever its purpose, this single tablet shows that Babylonian mathematicians, working in base-60, had an arithmetic understanding of right triangles a millennium before Pythagoras was born.