In one of your math classes, you might have been taught that geometry and trigonometry were products of the ancient Greeks. That's not entirely accurate, as a new discovery proves that both were ...

Plimpton 322, the tablet in question, is certainly an alluring artifact. It’s a broken piece of clay roughly the size of a postcard. It was filled with four columns of cuneiform numbers around 1800 ...

So if one is to construct a reciprocal table of numbers up to, say, 200 (base 10), it turns out that there are 45 regular entries for base 60 but only 18 for base 10. That's a very practical ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On Monday, the Onion reported that the ...