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An Australian mathematician has SLOT168 discovered a 3,700-year-old ancient inscription showing how powerful and advanced the Kingdom of Babylonia was between 1900 - 1600 BC. The method of calculating the area with right triangles was invented and used before Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher known for millennia of the theory of geometry.

Dr Daniel Mansfield from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. The findings, published in the journal Foundations of Science, indicate that a flat circular tablet Si.427, excavated in Iraq in 1894, was long left in the Istanbul Archeology Museum in Turkey. over a hundred years This is the oldest evidence of the world's use of the Pythagorean theorem. which existed 1,100 years before Pythagoras was born.

The inscription Si.427 is made of clay and written in cuniform script. It is believed that the record was made by a land surveyor. During the allocation of land to sell a plot of land The surveyor has shown the calculation to know the boundary of the rectangular land accurately. The numbers and shapes that appear on the inscription are clearly calculated using the Pythagorean theorem.

The Pythagorean Theorem has a right triangle at the heart of the calculations.


Basic math learners know the Pythagorean theorem very well. The main idea is that A square whose size is equal to the length of the longest side on a right triangle. will have an area equal to the sum of the same squares. which is equal to the lengths of the remaining two sides of the right triangle. Or it can be written as a mathematical formula as a2 + b2 = c2.

The researcher speculates that in the era when the Babylonians invented and widely used the Pythagorean Theorem, Cradle of civilization in Mesopotamia or the southwest of Asia. There is a progressive society in terms of mathematical pursuits. And the private sector began to occupy more land owners.