Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras

"The conclusion is inescapable. The Babylonians knew the relation between the length of the diagonal of a square and its side: d=square root of 2," mathematician Bruce Ratner writes in a paper on the topic.

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Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras

It predates Pythagoras by over 1,000 years.

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