Plimpton 322 lists a bunch of Pythagorean triples and notes which of their three values is regular, helping ancient Babylonian surveyors to quickly "do the math," so to speak.

A Pythagorean triple is three positive numbers - a, b and c. Triples are commonly written as (a,b,c) and a common example is 3,4,5. It is derived from Pythagorean theorem where every right ...

Old Babylonian tablet likely used for surveying uses Pythagorean triples at least 1,000 years before Pythagoras An Australian mathematician has discovered what may be the oldest known example of ...

The tablet is the earliest discovered example of applied geometry. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A 3,700-year-old clay ...

The Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with numbers written in cuneiform script. The Babylonian-era tablet lists Pythagorean triples. (CN) — A 3,700-year-old clay tablet contains a curious list of Pythagorean ...

Take 5. So 3, 4, and 5 are a Pythagorean triple. But so are 5, 12, and 13. If 5 is blue in the first example, then it has to be blue in the second, meaning either 12 or 13 has to be red.