Babylonian trigonometry "simpler, more accurate... has clear advantages over our own."

[Binkie The Clown]

6. It's the kind of sci-babble that happens when they try to explain something to the uneducated

Why do reporters have to sensationalize and exaggerate everything they write for the general public? They could have simply said that the Babylonians took a slightly different approach and arrived at a pretty good approximation for their time. We also use ratios when we teach school children that pi is approximately equal to 22/7. The ratio 355/113 is even better. But neither of them is "more accurate" than the actual irrational (ir-rational) number that is pi.

That they has such an accurate table is newsworthy. The rest is just silliness, (like "maybe space aliens taught it to them&quot .