TMN Ist Ni 00018

Translation — curated editorial

Editorial

Experimental

Editorial entry — translation cited from: CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P368708.

Transliteration

2.10
2.10
4.26.40
1(disz) 1/3(disz) kusz3 3(disz) szu-szi ib2-sa2
a-sza3-bi [en-nam]
a-sza3-bi 1(u) 3(disz) sze
igi-4-gal2 sze-kam

Scholarly note

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — TMN Ist Ni 00018. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Attribution

Image: Arkeoloji Müzeleri, Istanbul, Turkey (P368708) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. source
Translation excerpted from CDLI raw catalogue, no published translation. P-number P368708..

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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.