sexagesimal

How To Use sexagesimal In A Sentence

• In fact there are fascinating glimpses of the Babylonians coming to terms with the fact that division by 7 would lead to an infinite sexagesimal fraction.
• The findings of the Heraion prove that this sexagesimal submultiple was once used also in Greece proper.
• While base 60 seems like the creation of an extraordinarily fertile imagination, sexagesimal has historical pedigree. HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
• Walton has also noticed that the total of the durations of the kingdoms and the total of the ages of the patriarchs are numerically related and are equivalent if the number base of the Sumerian list is changed from sexagesimal to decimal.
• The aim of the first part is to introduce the Hindu numerals, to explain a place value system and to describe addition, multiplication and other arithmetic operations on integers and fractions in both decimal and sexagesimal notation.
• Sexagesimal, duodenary and decimal systems based on the numbers 60, 12 and 10 are widespread.
• Writing developed and counting was based on a sexagesimal system, that is to say base 60.
• In ancient Babylon a sexagesimal system, that is a base of 60, was in use.
• He attributes this to their clumsy numeration system, a hybrid of the Babylonian sexagesimal system and an additive system in which each letter of the Greek alphabet stood for one value.
• The necessary background mathematical tools are then introduced such as the arithmetical operations on sexagesimal fractions and the trigonometric functions.