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Journal Article
Plimpton 322: a study of rectangles
2022
Overview
Plimpton 322, which is a broken a clay tablet (cuneiform) from the Old Babylonian period (1900 - 1600 BCE), has been one of the very remarkable and enigmatic mathematical objects from antiquity. It features a table of 15 Pythagorean triples, involving many impressively large numbers. There has been much scholarly work, intense speculation, and theorizing, since the early work of Neugebauer and Sachs from 1945, on what the contents of the table signify. In the present article, Daniel F. Mansfield, after reviewing some of the present understanding on the issue, proposes a new explanation, on the theme that they concern a particular geometric problem in contemporary surveying, involving investigation of rectangles whose sides are \"regular\" numbers in the sense of Babylonian arithmetic. He notes that the study may have been motivated either entirely by a particular practical need or a theoretical interest in geometry, pursuing an issue.
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