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A fact from IM 67118 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 July 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a clay tablet at the National Museum of Iraq, dated to c. 1770 BCE, shows a calculation that uses the Pythagorean theorem—twelve centuries prior to the birth of Pythagoras?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/IM 67118.

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The result was: promoted by MrClog (talk) 16:38, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that a clay tablet at the National Museum of Iraq dated to c. 1770 BCE shows a calculation that uses the Pythagorean theorem, twelve centuries prior to the birth of Pythagoras? Source: "The solution b=1, a=0.75 is proved correct by computing the areas of squares with the corresponding side-lengths, adding these areas, and computing the side-length of the square with the resulting area, that is, by taking the square root. This is an application of the Pythagorean theorem, c=sqrt(a^2+b^2), and the result agrees with the given value, c=1.25." Sources: J. Høyup, Lengths, Widths and Surfaces. A portrait of old Babylonian algebra and its kin, Springer 2002, p. 260; Britton, John P.; Proust, Christine; Shnider, Steve (2011). "Plimpton 322: a review and a different perspective". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 65, pp. 550–551.

Comment: It would be nice to include a photograph of the tablet, but I have not been able to find any with an appropriate license.

Created by Will Orrick (talk). Self-nominated at 22:42, 2 May 2019 (UTC).[reply]

@Will Orrick: This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. No QPQ is needed. Please could you incorporate a date for Pythagoras' birth (with an inline citation) into the article. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:49, 30 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the information and an inline citation about the date of Pythagoras' birth into the article (it's the last sentence in IM_67118#Significance). RebeccaGreen (talk) 21:30, 22 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. This is now good to go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:48, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As Cwmhiraeth has not formally ticked this nomination, a reviewer is needed to check and, if appropriate, give it a final tick. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:25, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that. I forgot to add the formal tick. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:11, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]