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Ancient Babylonian tablet - world's first trig table

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UNSW Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world’s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, most likely used by ancient mathematical scribes to calculate how to construct palaces, temples and stepped pyramids. MORE INFO BELOW. Article: Norman Wildberger and Daniel Mansfield dig deeper: For more factual videos like this subscribe. We're the official channel of UNSW Sydney, a brilliantly located university between the coast and the city.

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