Forget trigonometry, cos Babylonians did it better 3700 years ago - by counting in base 60!

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Aug 24, 2017, 11:59 pm10.7k ptsInsanely GreatTop
Ancient tablet beat Pythagoras by a millennium, may explain how the ancients built pyramids Those of you who can remember trigonometry can feel free to forget it, because ancient Babylonian mathematicians had a better way of doing it – using base 60!…

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