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    Plimpton 322 is a Babylonian clay tablet, notable as containing an example of Babylonian mathematics. It has number 322 in the G.A. Plimpton Collection...
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    Plimpton 322". Historia Math. 28 (3): 167–206. doi:10.1006/hmat.2001.2317. MR 1849797. Robson, E. (2002). "Words and pictures: New light on Plimpton 322"...
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    but the problem does not mention a triangle. The Mesopotamian tablet Plimpton 322, written near Larsa also c. 1800 BC, contains many entries closely related...
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    arithmetical nature is a fragment of a table: the broken clay tablet Plimpton 322 (Larsa, Mesopotamia, c. 1800 BC) contains a list of "Pythagorean triples"...
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    cuneiform tablet Plimpton 322, which was likely excavated in what is now southern Iraq, to the New York publisher George Arthur Plimpton, reportedly for...
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  • literary award named for George Plimpton Plimpton 322, a Babylonian clay tablet named for George Arthur Plimpton Plimpton Sieve Portrait of Queen Elizabeth...
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  • just the study of arithmetic and geometry. By the time of Aristotle (384–322 BC) this meaning was fully established. In Latin and English, until around...
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  • solids, though it is not known if this was deliberate. c. 1800 BC – The Plimpton 322 Babylonian tablet records the oldest known examples of Pythagorean triples...
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    have been known since ancient times. The oldest known record comes from Plimpton 322, a Babylonian clay tablet from about 1800 BC, written in a sexagesimal...
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  • According to mathematician S. G. Dani, the Babylonian cuneiform tablet Plimpton 322 written c. 1850 BCE "contains fifteen Pythagorean triples with quite...
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