• nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Yes and also I have a hard time believing the builders if the great pyramid didn’t understand it in some capacity either. They just didn’t have symbolic algebra to express it the way we do .

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      6 months ago

      There are mentions of pythagorian triplets in pyramid era Egypt, and in all fairness, ancient Greeks didn’t have symbolic algebra either - it is a fairly recent form of expression.

      And, as far as I know, ancient Indians were actually writing mathematical expressions in full prose form - word problems et al.