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Mesopotamia, 1800 BCE - Princeton University

Mesopotamia, 1800 BCE 9 an example, the first line shows the entries b = 1,59 and c = 2,49, which rep-resent the numbers 1× 60 + 59 = 119 and 2× 60 + 49 = 169. A quick calcu-lation gives us the other side as hence (119, 120, 169) is a Pythagorean triple. Again, in the third line we read

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