Plempton 322 by Kaci Dilday https://padlet.com/kdilday/ktaqj3mmihll en-us 2017-10-24 14:08:42 UTC 2025-10-03 14:47:46 UTC hello@padlet.com What is trig? https://padlet.com/kdilday/ktaqj3mmihll/wish/202675933 Based off of the video, it is the ratio of the hypotenuse to the longer leg.

The tablet states "square of the diagonal, subtract 1 for the square of the width"]]> 2017-11-01 19:02:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kdilday/ktaqj3mmihll/wish/202675933 What were the main concepts? https://padlet.com/kdilday/ktaqj3mmihll/wish/202676244 Sexagesimal (base 60), pythagorean triples recognized with number system, exact values because of counting system. Focus on lengths rather than angles, has to be a right triangle. 
  ]]> 2017-11-01 19:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kdilday/ktaqj3mmihll/wish/202676244 Who discovered trig? https://padlet.com/kdilday/ktaqj3mmihll/wish/202680607 Babylonians (angles)
Seleucid astronomy
Hipparchus' table of chords
Ptolemy
Aryabhata]]> 2017-11-01 19:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kdilday/ktaqj3mmihll/wish/202680607 Other important elements: https://padlet.com/kdilday/ktaqj3mmihll/wish/202680819 Tablet,
piece of it missing, no use of sin and cos, or theta

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