Sine of the Times | Creation Moments

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Mostly, I liked math (or maths, as we called it) when I was at high school. But one aspect of math was tedious. This was when special numbers had to be looked up in boring books called log tables. These books contained not only logarithms but also the trigonometric functions – sines, cosines and tangents. Today’s students simply press a button on their scientific calculators, but we had to look with painstaking concentration through page after page of figures until we had worked out the value required.

 

A clay tablet, called Plimpton 322, was discovered in the early 1900s in the area where Babylon must have been.

 

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