Oddbean new post about login | logout The Pythagorean Theorem is at least a thousand years older than Pythagoras. Turns out Babylonians knew some pretty advanced math. https://www.iflscience.com/pythagorean-theorem-found-on-clay-tablet-1000-years-older-than-pythagoras-70934
@365dd660 Still think that it's cool that the one thing Babylonian that is still in daily use is base 60 math: time. Our 60 second minute. Our 60 minute hour. That's how old the notation of time is...Babylon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_mathematics