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Pretty Cool: Pythagorean Theorum was known more than 1,200 years before Pythagoras lived


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just goes to show that maybe a lot of the stuff we attribute to the Greeks might be because they were the ones who collected the information and allowed it to be more evenly distributed around the educated world. 

Babylonian Tablet from 1770 BC describes the Theorem,,, our hero of the Triangle wasnt born until sometime around 570 BC

 

 

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23 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

just goes to show that maybe a lot of the stuff we attribute to the Greeks might be because they were the ones who collected the information and allowed it to be more evenly distributed around the educated world. 

Babylonian Tablet from 1770 BC describes the Theorem,,, our hero of the Triangle wasnt born until sometime around 570 BC

 

 

meh,  this stuff happens.  The Greeks also invented the steam engine about 1700 years before Watt did.   Sometimes this stuff happens.  

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The Greeks are pretty open about the fact that they garnered a lot of knowledge from the Persians (old empire).  Including using workers from all over the middle east to help build their wonders.   They had the cash and outsourced a lot of the expertise.  There are blocks found in athens that standardize measurements used by foreign workers building the Parthenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_units_of_measurement

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46 minutes ago, locodos said:

The Greeks are pretty open about the fact that they garnered a lot of knowledge from the Persians (old empire).  Including using workers from all over the middle east to help build their wonders.   They had the cash and outsourced a lot of the expertise.  There are blocks found in athens that standardize measurements used by foreign workers building the Parthenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_units_of_measurement

The old "build vs buy" eh.

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2 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

just goes to show that maybe a lot of the stuff we attribute to the Greeks might be because they were the ones who collected the information and allowed it to be more evenly distributed around the educated world. 

Babylonian Tablet from 1770 BC describes the Theorem,,, our hero of the Triangle wasnt born until sometime around 570 BC

 

 

Pretty acute analysis. I guess it's pretty obtuse of us to think that someone couldn't get this right sooner.

 

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8 hours ago, locodos said:

The Greeks are pretty open about the fact that they garnered a lot of knowledge from the Persians (old empire).  Including using workers from all over the middle east to help build their wonders.   They had the cash and outsourced a lot of the expertise.  There are blocks found in athens that standardize measurements used by foreign workers building the Parthenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_units_of_measurement

"Ok, if you insist, but only one κόνδυλος." 

Smaller units of length
Unit Greek name Equal to Modern equivalent Description
daktylos δάκτυλος   19.3 mm (0.76 in) finger
kondylos κόνδυλος 2 daktyloi 38.5 mm (1.52 in) knuckle
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