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It has been recently discovered (Aug 2017), by researchers at the University of New South Wales, that a 3,700 year old Babylonian tablet, known as Plimpton 332, contained tables of trigonometric ratios. The tablet is approx 1500 years older than the Greek astronomer Hipparchus who has long been regarded as the father of trigonometry. So, with that one discovery, the history of trigonometry has become less brief and its origins have been shifted from Europe to the Middle East. It is not yet clear what else the Babylonians achieved in the intervening 1500 years.
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