>>13690804Do you know how deep the rabbit hole goes, Neo?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_theoryDawn of arithmetic
The Plimpton 322 tablet
The earliest historical find of an arithmetical nature is a fragment of a table: the broken clay tablet Plimpton 322 (Larsa, Mesopotamia, ca. 1800 BCE) contains a list of "Pythagorean triples", that is, integers {\displaystyle (a,b,c)}(a,b,c) such that {\displaystyle a^{2}+b^{2}=c^{2}}a^{2}+b^{2}=c^{2}. The triples are too many and too large to have been obtained by brute force. The heading over the first column reads: "The takiltum of the diagonal which has been subtracted such that the width..."[2]
The table's layout suggests[3] that it was constructed by means of what amounts, in modern language, to the identity
