Plimpton 322 Clay Tablet. Ancient spreadsheet.

I haven't actually printed this yet, but look forward to giving it a go.

An ancient cuneiform tablet. Created from a flat image using imagetostl.com

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The Plimpton 322 clay tablet, with each row of the table relating to a Pythagorean triple, is believed to have been written in Babylonia around 1800 BCE, around 1,000 years before the Greek mathematician Pythagoras was born.



Overview of Plimpton 322
Origin and Date: Plimpton 322 is a Babylonian clay tablet, believed to have been inscribed around 1800 BCE during the Old Babylonian period (circa 1894–1595 BCE). It hails from the region of ancient Mesopotamia, likely southern Iraq, and predates the Greek mathematician Pythagoras (circa 570–495 BCE) by approximately 1,000 years, challenging the notion that he was the first to explore Pythagorean triples.



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Discovery and Collection: The tablet is part of the Plimpton Collection at Columbia University, donated by publishe