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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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binary format. Originally, such
clocks showed each
decimal digit of
****agesimal time as a
binary value, but
presently binary clocks also
exist which...
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Harshad number. A
number system with base 60 is
called ****agesimal (the
original meaning of
****agesimal is sixtieth). It is the
smallest positive integer that...
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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...
- Neodymium, the 60th
element <, the
ASCII character with code 60 Base 60 (
****agesimal, ****agenary) "Sixty", a song by
Karma to Burn from the
album Mountain...
- than 40
years under this system. Al-Biruni
first subdivided the hour
****agesimally into minutes, seconds,
thirds and
fourths in 1000 CE
while discussing...
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Omicron ****i. In
Claudius Ptolemy's (c. 100–170) Almagest,
tables of
****agesimal numbers 1 ... 59 are
represented in the
conventional manner for Gr****...
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approximation to 2 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}}
accurate to
three significant ****agesimal digits (about six
significant decimal digits).
Babylonian mathematics...
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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...
