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Content
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- Created
- c. 1800 BC
- Height
- 9 cm
- Present location
- New York City, New York, United States
- Width
- 13 cm
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Overview
- Babylonian Babylonia
- Clay tablet
- Mathematical table
- Cuneiform script
- One Pythagorean triple
- Pythagorean theorem
- Otto Neugebauer
- Abraham Sachs
- Regular number
- Sexagesimal
- Number-theoretic Number theory
- Square root
- Anachronistic Anachronism
- Babylonian mathematics
- Creighton Buck Robert Creighton Buck
- Eleanor Robson
Provenance and dating
- George Arthur Plimpton
- Edgar J. Banks Edgar James Banks
- Columbia University
- Iraq
- Larsa
- Middle chronology
- Robson (2002) Plimpton 322
Content
- Brackets Bracket
- (3,4,5) right triangle Special right triangles
- Hypotenuse
- Akkadian language
- Sumerian logograms Sumerogram
- Completing the square
- Line segment
Construction of the table
Purpose and authorship
- Otto E.Neugebauer Otto E. Neugebauer
- Trigonometric Trigonometry
- Secant or tangent Trigonometric function
- Tangent
- Secant Secant (trigonometry)
- Reciprocal Multiplicative inverse
- Pairs Ordered pair
- Lester R. Ford Award
- Algebraic Algebra
- Geometric Geometry
- Scribal Scribe
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Nodes54
Edges53
Triples94
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.037037
Components1
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Plimpton 322
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related to Exhibitions · 32
Plimpton 322 → Ancient World, Before Pythagoras, Columbia University, Columbia’s Libraries, December, Edward, From Old Babylon, Her Crown, Includes, Institute, Item, January, Jewels, Manuscript Library, Masters, Math, New York Times, New York University, November, October
related to Further reading · 22
Plimpton 322 → Abdulaziz, Abdulrahman Ali, Babylonian Method, Baruch College, Bibcode, Bill, British ColumbiaKirby, CDLN, City University, Cuneiform Digital Library Notes, Generating Pythagorean Triples, Half-hour, ISSN, Laurence, Modern Mathematics, New YorkJens Kleb, Plimpton, Tablet, The Ancient Roots, The Babylonian
related to Provenance and dating · 14
Plimpton 322 → According, Banks, BC, Columbia University, Edgar, George Arthur Plimpton, Iraq, Larsa, More, New York, Plimpton, Robson, Senkereh, The
related to Reciprocal pairs · 9
Plimpton 322 → Advocates, In, Moreover, Plimpton, Pythagorean, Regular, Robson, The, YBC
related to Content · 5
Plimpton 322 → Babylonian, However, Plimpton, The, With
is a · 3
Plimpton 322 → Babylonian clay tablet, table of numbers, trigonometric table is ruled out for similar reasons
related to External links · 3
Plimpton 322 → CDLI, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, Plimpton
Created · 1
Plimpton 322 → c. 1800 BC
Height · 1
Plimpton 322 → 9 cm
Present location · 1
Plimpton 322 → New York City, New York, United States
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Important terminology
tablet table plimpton number 322 column robson sexagesimal square reciprocal row displaystyle regular side proposal right numbers first also columns
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| Plimpton 322 | Created | c. 1800 BC | 1.00 | infobox |
| Plimpton 322 | Height | 9 cm | 1.00 | infobox |
| Plimpton 322 | Present location | New York City, New York, United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Plimpton 322 | Width | 13 cm | 1.00 | infobox |
| Plimpton 322 | is a | Babylonian clay tablet | 0.90 | text |
| Plimpton 322 | is a | trigonometric table is ruled out for similar reasons | 0.90 | text |
| Plimpton 322 | is a | table of numbers | 0.90 | text |
| BM 80209 | instance of | and of similar tablets | 0.80 | text |
| would have been useful in allowing a teacher to set problems in the same format as each other but with different data | instance of | and of similar tablets | 0.80 | text |
| Plimpton 322 | related to Content | The | 0.60 | section |
| Plimpton 322 | related to Content | Plimpton | 0.60 | section |
| Plimpton 322 | related to Content | Babylonian | 0.60 | section |
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