Interesting Links for 02-10-2023
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andrewducker- 1. cripes does anybody remember Google People (a short story)
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- 2. The world's oldest trigonometry table (1,500 years before the Greeks)
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- 3. Extreme Misogyny in Incels Probably Not Caused by Sexual Frustration (instead caused by trying to show how much inceller they are than any of their terrible friends)
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- 4. How Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis
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- 5. U2 at the Sphere in Vegas looks mind-blowing
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- 6. The 'Center of Edinburgh' Bollard
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- 7. You cannot design a productive city around car transport
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- 8. Animation vs. Math
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- 9. Oxford University Mathematician reacts to "Animation vs. Math"
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- 10. The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
- (tags:security Technology epicfail hacking )
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Date: 2023-10-03 07:45 am (UTC)The objections are that a) it isn't new, b) that it isn't trignometry and c) that it isn't history.
M+W admit c) as this tablet doesn't show how the Babylonians used the table.
Since the Babylonians don't use angles, but describe the associated right angle triangle, this is not trig. but working this way you don't put the approximations into the table but get a division out which you can make as accurate as you need.
As far as I can see this exactness *is* new.
Wikipedia mentions a French paper by Proust (not that one) and suggest that it is what we ought to be reading.
I too had tables and calculators at school. I did have a slide rule but using them wasn't part of the syllabus (there existence was). But I also have a desk top hand-crank calculating machine.