Pythagoras is credited for creating the famous Pythagorean theorem, but ancient clay tablets suggest the math concept was formed more than 1,000 years before the ancient Greek's birth.

The tablet, likely used for teaching, dates to the Old Babylonian period between 1900-1600 BCE – centuries before Pythagoras was born in around 570 BCE.

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