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****agesimal, also
known as base 60, is a
numeral system with
sixty as its base. It
originated with the
ancient Sumerians in the 3rd
millennium BC, was...
- year. The use of a
calendar with 360 days may be
related to the use of
****agesimal numbers.
Another theory is that the
Babylonians subdivided the circle...
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their calculations (aided by
their invention of the abacus), used a
****agesimal (base-60)
positional numeral system inherited from
either the Sumerian...
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expressed in
fractions of a second, such as 1⁄30
second or 1⁄1000 second.
****agesimal divisions of the day from a
calendar based on
astronomical observation...
- The ****agenary cycle, also
known as the
ganzhi or stems-and-branches is a
cycle of
sixty terms, each
corresponding to one year, thus a
total of
sixty years...
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approximation of 2 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}}
accurate to
three significant ****agesimal digits (about six
significant decimal digits).
Babylonian mathematics...
- hour, are base 60 (
****agesimal). Similarly, the
angular measure degree and submultiples, arcminute, and arcsecond, are also
****agesimal and SI-accepted....
- 1/206264.8) of a radian.
These units originated in
Babylonian astronomy as
****agesimal (base 60)
subdivisions of the degree; they are used in
fields that involve...
- record. The
Babylonians also
possessed a place-value
system and used a
****agesimal numeral system which is
still in use
today for
measuring angles and time...
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sizes and
shapes were used to
record higher groups of ten or six in a
****agesimal number system.
Different combinations of
token shapes and
sizes encoded...
