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Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras (www.iflscience.com)

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[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Isn't this common knowledge that the Indians knew the theorem well before Pythagorus?

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes and also I have a hard time believing the builders if the great pyramid didn't understand it in some capacity either. They just didn't have symbolic algebra to express it the way we do .

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There are mentions of pythagorian triplets in pyramid era Egypt, and in all fairness, ancient Greeks didn't have symbolic algebra either - it is a fairly recent form of expression.

And, as far as I know, ancient Indians were actually writing mathematical expressions in full prose form - word problems et al.

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