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**Discovery Report: Plimpton 322 (G.A. Plimpton Collection, Columbia University)** The video titled "Plimpton 323" almost certainly refers to the world-famous Old Babylonian tablet **Plimpton 322** (catalogued as **P. 322** in the George Arthur Plimpton Collection at Columbia University Libraries; occasionally cross-referenced in literature as the source for the "Plimpton Collection" tablets, distinct from the British Museum's BM or Yale's YBC series). There is no catalogued "Plimpton 323" of mathematical significance; this is a common titular error for the singular masterpiece, Plimpton 322. **Mathematical Content: Trigonometry Without Angles** Dating to c. 1800 BCE (Larsa period), the tablet contains a fragmented table of 15 rows and 4 preserved columns written in sexagesimal (base-60) cuneiform. It does not record astronomical observations. Instead, it lists **Pythagorean triples**—integer solutions to a² + b² = c²—a millennium before Pythagoras. The columns function as foll Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com
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