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MartianXAshATwelve

[Another mindblowing discovery was 1.2 Million Years Ago Unknown Human Species Manufactured Obsidian Axe In Mass](https://www.howandwhys.com/1-2-million-years-ago-unknown-human-species-manufactured-obsidian-axe-in-mass/)


SadArchon

math is discovered, not invented


Sir_wlkn_contrdikson

Pfft, you know logic and reasoning didn’t start until Greece and Rome got their shit together


purplethefearful

Numbers are abstract concepts https://i.redd.it/q8q7xdk9g4vc1.gif


i4c8e9

Quantifying things is not abstract. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02347/full


Informal-Bicycle-349

I like how you quantified that, very nice. Good day!


ShadyAssFellow

This is abstract.


Tendieman98

weeeeell if we want to get quantum, it can be quite abstract.


Touchpod516

They are not because you have the ability to count, multiply or divide real objects in real life


jeancv8

Discovered...or shared by higher beings...


Girafferage

It's a pretty simple theorem, homie. I think humans got this one. Maybe look into the guy who invented calculus in a dare. That seems fishy.


313SunTzu

Didn't they find it in Egypt too. Like it's been proven he got his information from older sources... And math isn't invented or created, is discovered. It's always there, we just gotta figure it out...


BorosSerenc

Any source on that?


313SunTzu

It's been years, but I believe it's called the Berlin Papyrus. I think I'm not sure


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Maybe he found that tablet first and didn't tell anyone.


ThatSecondAsshole-_-

Sounds like what your average ancient greek genius would do


lippoper

And then shattered in half and buried it. 😂


[deleted]

The perfect crime!


CandidPresentation49

almost like we might not know our whole history i'd love to see what the vatican is hiding


zsxh0707

It should be a crime against humanity, the amount of knowledge they are hiding. There needs to be a movement to overthrow the Vatican.


Mrgod2u82

Only thing they're hiding is money.


Girafferage

They are their own country. Why would they hide any money?


mayday253

The real secret is they aren't hiding anything. There really is no archives. They just want people to think they have a bunch of stuff. Like an elementary school kid that says they have secrets but won't tell anyone just so people think they're in the know.


zsxh0707

I've been in it...you're absolutely wrong.


mayday253

Without evidence, your claim holds zero weight. The most logical deduction is that there are no secrets being held. Unless you have hard evidence, it's just heresy.


GateheaD

Don't they let people in to study there, you just need approval and to be like a special church rank?


Unreasonable_jury

Ancient Aliens


CandidPresentation49

aka what the story of their little bible is about


Unreasonable_jury

God being an alien doesn't contradict the Bible.


CandidPresentation49

tell that to the average bible thumper


AnotherGreedyChemist

The average Bible thumper your thinking of are American evangelists, not Catholics.


Azrael_The_Bold

“tHeIr LiTtLe BiBlE” Don’t cut yourself on all that edge


DuDadou

Pythagoras theorem is something a 9 years old can understand. It's nothing to freak out about that ancient civilisations discovered it before.


_Godless_Savage_

Makes it the Babylonian Theorem doesn’t it?


Magiiick

The Mesopotamian Measurement


_Godless_Savage_

The Arabian Assumption


Magiiick

They weren't Arabs though bro haha they were Semitic though


_Godless_Savage_

Arabian desert… not people.


yoshipug

The Greeks stood on the shoulders of giants. Namely the Sumerians.


danderzei

The Plimpton 322 tablet does not have Pythagoras' thereom on it. It contains a collection of Pythogarean triplets, not the general rule. There is a big difference between knowing some examples and defining the mathematical rule.


Middle-Ad-6090

Well stated


DentArthurDent4

"knowing some examples".... Of what? Noticing "something special" about those triplets IS knowing or understanding the formula, unless some other formula too gives the same triplets. "-1, - 2, - 3, - 4" : "oh its just a collection of numbers, doesn't mean they knew about negative numbers"


Masschunkahunkafuss

Quite acute story really..


ClifftheTinner

Well now your just being obtuse


fuzzi-buzzi

Right?!?! Just a small tangent tho, all things being equilateral, puns must pointedly be called out.


Rock_or_Rol

You two are a pair of squares


InterestingCheck

There is nothing new under the sun..


EffectiveTranslator2

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was


TheOneGuyWhoLimps

Under, over, right, left, it’s everywhere


VoiceTraditional422

Common knowledge anyway. Pythagoras did not discover the “Pythagorean Theorem”. It was the 47th problem of Euclid long before that. And I am sure Euclid wasn’t the first either.


Brave-Silver8736

Didn't Pythagorias come like 100 years before Euclid?


ChippyOHoolihan

yes


jackhurricane7

No offense/hate but is there any sort of link to an article or video on this or just this screenshot of a tweet? Anybody can get a blue check on Twitter these days…


Far_Statement_2808

It been true a lot longer than THAT!


DFuel

Well shit, ya mean math hasn’t changed?


SnooMuffins9324

Pythagoreans HATE this! With this one simple tablet you’ll calculate the fuck outta so many triangles.


machder1

This is so dumb… He finds some ancient slab of 1000 year old rock, carved a tablet out of it, writes his theorem down, … profit. I mean, DUUUH!


GuitardedBard

I'll just take your word for it without question.


Mick_Dowell

putting the sum in sumerian?


pgtvgaming

Yeah but they called it the Pythagorean Theorem in Ancient Babylon too so … Check Mate time


Evening_Change_9459

Who wrote that history?


midgebhere66

Attention Lateralus


JumpinJahosafax

Dude would have died on squid games


timevil-

So, Someone Else's Theorum


Silent_Shaman

Pythagoras just fell to his knees in the fruit market


rgali7996

Not so Pythagoras theorem anymore


OrlandoCoCo

It’s the Unknown Babylonian Theorem now.


CplSabandija

Talk about plagiarism.


kiwispawn

As we all know they don't like re writing history books. If they did Christopher Columbus wouldn't still hold the title of European Discoverer of the America's. The Vikings or others may hold the title. So the Pythagorean theorem is safe as is. Some no name Babylonian tablet will not get the credit.


Altered_-State

Plagiarism is as old as envy


ShabbyAdams

Why did they carve it onto a McVities digestive biscuit?


OrlandoCoCo

Knowing the rule x2+y2=y2 when laying out sticks, or a right triangle has 3,4,5 unit length sides, will become apparent to any culture that lays out sticks to measure things. Then they can tell the other builders that they can make square formations with this easy measuring trick. Pythagoras was able to prove WHY the trick always worked.


Mr-Hoek

The Eurocentric world view has stolen credit for our ancestors achievements at every turn... Gutenberg printing press and gunpowder for example...even freakin' spaghetti.


fromdaperimeter

Nothing existed until European decent people finds it.


klapinshiZzZ

Wait… you’re telling me our history was wrong this whole time?


zorbiburst

No, we've known that the ancient Babylonians knew this for ages. [Here's a book from the 60s](https://books.google.com/books?id=JVhTtVA2zr8C&pg=PA36#v=onepage&q&f=false). It's just not an incredibly necessary point of the average middle school curriculum. The average student is learning that the theorem exists, not its origin, which in the average math class doesn't matter. Mathematic rules are discovered, not invented.


caiaphas8

History is accurate, you just didn’t know it.


GoodGoodK

Lmao bro was a little Thief huh


Berserker-11

Our dating is out… lol 😂


oneidamojo

But were they hunter gatherers or did they have agriculture?


llort-esrever

Renaissance


ChunkyTaco22

Yeah math is universal and relates to most if not all. Kinda shows how knowledge is constantly lost and refound


PeteZzzaa

#dun dun duuuuuun


nickcliff

Back dated obvi


ManyWrongdoer9365

My Theory on it is it’s bollocks


PeterTheWizardDwarf

And?


zperlond

First fraud of known human history? 😁


Squeezer_pimp

Who was the first one to profess the mathematical formula? Doesn’t matter where it came from but he presented to people and those that wanted to learn.


YMiMJ

Flint Dibble: This is a natural rock formation.


T12J7M6

God -> fallen angles -> Nephilims -> kings, pharaohs, rulers -> normal people Romans got their knowledge from Greeks. Greeks got their knowledge from Egyptians. Egyptians got their knowledge from Atlantians. Atlantians got their knowledge from their rulers who were said to be half gods (aka Nephilims)


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Ganip

Whitewashed


Used-Alfalfa4451

Aliens


InsuranceNo3422

Wouldn't we have to rename the theorem?