Babylonian scribes listed Pythagorean triples a thousand years before Pythagoras

A single Old Babylonian tablet, Plimpton 322, records sets of whole numbers that satisfy a-squared plus b-squared equals c-squared, arranged in a systematic table. It was written more than a thousand years before the Greek thinker whose name is now attached to that relationship was even born.

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