Describing their work in Historica Mathematica, the researchers call the tablet "a trigonometric table of a completely unfamiliar kind and... ahead of its time by thousands of years." What made it ...

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet discovered by the real Indiana Jones has been revealed as the world’s oldest — and most accurate — trigonometric table. Mathematicians believe that ...

Dr Daniel Mansfield with the 3,700-year-old trigonometric table Credit: UNSW “Our research reveals that Plimpton 322 describes the shapes of right-angle triangles using a novel kind of ...

Our new research, published in Historia Mathematica, shows that the Babylonians were able to construct a trigonometric table using only the exact ratios of sides of a right-angled triangle.

A 37000-YEAR-OLD Babylonian clay tablet mystery has been cracked by Australian researchers, revealing it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table. Since the discovery of the ...