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In reply to the discussion: Babylonian trigonometry "simpler, more accurate... has clear advantages over our own." [View all]

eppur_se_muova

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1. "only completely accurate trigonometric table" -- an exceptional claim, requiring exceptional proof.
Reply to eShirl (Original post)
Fri Aug 25, 2017, 10:14 AM
Aug 2017

None is provided.

Trigonometry is not a science of approximations, but of identities. There can't BE a "more accurate" version.

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Babylonian trigonometry "simpler, more accurate... has clear advantages over our own." [View all] eShirl Aug 2017 OP
"only completely accurate trigonometric table" -- an exceptional claim, requiring exceptional proof. eppur_se_muova Aug 2017 #1
Maybe they figured out how to make pi3... Wounded Bear Aug 2017 #2
I defer to those who know trig eShirl Aug 2017 #4
Did you watch the video? Jim__ Aug 2017 #5
It's the kind of sci-babble that happens when they try to explain something to the uneducated Binkie The Clown Aug 2017 #6
It wasn't an approximation, the tables ARE exact. hunter Aug 2017 #8
I want to know what they mean by 'simplified' values muriel_volestrangler Aug 2017 #9
They do clarify that in the paper. Jim__ Aug 2017 #11
I think it made more sense to someone having an intimate familiarity with sexagesimal fractions hunter Aug 2017 #12
I would also like to know what they meant by that FiveGoodMen Aug 2017 #7
Sounds to me like they used the next-more-complicated version of fractional numbers. DetlefK Aug 2017 #3
The full article in Historia Mathematica is available Jim__ Aug 2017 #10
The clear advantage of the trigonometry I use over that used by the Babylonians, is that I can... NNadir Aug 2017 #13
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