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by emersonrsantos 3369 days ago
Āryabhaṭa's sine table, the first known mathematical LUT, was made around 500 DC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Āryabhaṭa's_sine_table

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> first known mathematical LUT

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