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re: history of math was rewritten today: trigonometry invented 1500 years earlier than thought
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:33 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 8/25/17 at 12:33 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I almost bought some Babylonian artifacts once. Small obsession with the city. Next album will take influence from it. Getting a guitar painted with ishtar on it.
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Posted on 8/25/17 at 1:24 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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history of math was rewritten today: trigonometry invented 1500 years earlier than thought
LSUS Trig prof was saying this years ago. Also gave a brief run down on how and why pi works and how they got there.
Great class. I suck at math. Great class.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 1:27 am to Slevin7
Long story short - pi kept coming up. They found they could do x, y and z for different sized circles and pi kept popping up. They reverse engineered the equation and found it was a constant.
Badass shite.
Now you know.
Badass shite.
Now you know.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 1:33 am to Slevin7
In more pressing and current matters I have ants all over my gd iPad and myself. I also have to work tomorrow. Goodnight OT.
Learn to math. You'll be less dumb and you can do shite.
Learn to math. You'll be less dumb and you can do shite.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 2:37 am to Big L
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Didn't genghis khan and his merry band of horsemen totally destroy the trajectory of Babylon about 1000 years ago when it was at the forefront of science, art, math, astronomy?
No. And also, the Mongols ravaged many peoples, but only the Arabs get to use the conquest as a permanent excuse for present day backwardness. It's been 750 years. If your culture can't recover after 750 years, then something tells me your culture wasn't so strong to begin with.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 5:45 am to biglego
I Lways knew we was kings and queens.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 5:52 am to SEClint
quote:Quasi-Spinal Tap-ish obsession, IMO
Getting a guitar painted with ishtar on it.
(Admittedly Adjani would have gotten the D)
Posted on 8/25/17 at 5:53 am to Kafka
How race-obsessed are you that the first response that comes to your mind in this topic is about black people?
Posted on 8/25/17 at 5:55 am to RummelTiger
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Well, then I officially apologize to the Greeks for cursing them since high school, and now offer a hearty "frick you, motherfrickers" to the Babylonians.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 6:00 am to Ice Cold
He grew up here, it was a daily topic of conversation.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 6:23 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Plimpton 332
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Plimpton 322
Well which is it??? Get your shite together.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 6:40 am to Ice Cold
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How much race-obsessed pop culture bullshite are you subjected to that the first response that comes to your mind in this topic is about black people?
fixed it for you
Posted on 8/25/17 at 6:56 am to MikeD
One person thought up this system.
A few dozen men came up with the maths beyond 8th grade. A few dozen men came up with the science we rely on. A few dozen wrote the best classical style music up to today.
Einstein won nobel prize for idea that was used to make tv happen. He contributed a few other ideas.
100 guys did the heavy lifting for all of humanity.
A few dozen men came up with the maths beyond 8th grade. A few dozen men came up with the science we rely on. A few dozen wrote the best classical style music up to today.
Einstein won nobel prize for idea that was used to make tv happen. He contributed a few other ideas.
100 guys did the heavy lifting for all of humanity.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 6:59 am to Kafka
Wtf is this related to? I guess I am not up on my OT views on race
Posted on 8/25/17 at 7:01 am to Big L
No but ghengis did ruin Muslim civilization there by totally running over them and casting them to the sands of time.
Same with so many advanced Chinese cities. Like places so far beyond Europe it's crazy.
Ghengis is considered by many to be why European civilization rose to the top because he literally chopped the Muslim and chinese world down by the millions
Same with so many advanced Chinese cities. Like places so far beyond Europe it's crazy.
Ghengis is considered by many to be why European civilization rose to the top because he literally chopped the Muslim and chinese world down by the millions
Posted on 8/25/17 at 7:32 am to CelticDog
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100 guys did the heavy lifting for all of humanity.
I don't think you know how discoveries work.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 7:55 am to Kafka
Babylonia - where the first woman ever nicknamed Babs was known to host fabulous parties.
Posted on 8/25/17 at 7:55 am to TigersHuskers
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TigersHuskers
So you're the idiot that thinks math is a useless subject to be taught
Posted on 8/25/17 at 8:04 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
So the ancients had the mathematical and astronomical know-how to go to other planets...
Posted on 8/25/17 at 8:42 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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The tablet, known as Plimpton 332, was discovered in the early 1900s in Southern Iraq
I think it's fascinating that Western Civilization actually started in the Middle East. They started "modern" civilization, but since the Roman Empire have been living further in the past than a lot of the rest of the world. I have my theories on why that is, but I'll save that for a different day.
Babylonians and Assyrians were far more advanced than anyone in Europe were until the Greeks. Really, even the Achaemenid Persians were more advanced than the Greeks, and the Parthians/Sassanids could hold their own with the Romans.
The Europeans really didn't start advancing substantially past the Middle East culturally and technologically until they found trade routes around the Middle East and central Asia to the Far East.
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