Good ol’ trig: that bastion of angles and triangles is essential to calculating velocity, momentum, and much more. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c1aee11d583c6192e66cc41/master/pass/triangles-1050117030.jpg
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The Babylonians discovered a strange form of trigonometry
Enlarge / The 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet known as Plympton 322 turned out to be a trig table, expressed in ratios of the lengths of the sides of the triangles, rather than angles. (credit: UNSW/Andrew Kelly) The Babylonian civilization was at its peak roughly 4,000 years ago, with architecturally advanced cities throughout the region known today […]
