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Babylonian multiplication and reciprocal tables are about 2500 years older.
For that matter, Hipparchus and Ptolemy’s chord tables are also centuries older, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy's_table_of_chords
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Babylonian multiplication and reciprocal tables are about 2500 years older.
For that matter, Hipparchus and Ptolemy’s chord tables are also centuries older, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy's_table_of_chords