Plimpton 322

c. 1800 BC · Babylon

A Babylonian mathematics tablet with a table of Pythagorean triples, written more than a thousand years before Pythagoras.

Date

c. 1800 BC

Civilization

Babylon

Found at

Larsa

Where it is today

Columbia University, New York

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