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Calculating in Base 60

Thirty eight rows?


The last bag of cat litter I bought was 38#. Of course, it makes perfect sense.


Dad used to balle on and on about how a base 60 system would make more sense.


Now I know where he got it . . . .


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I had my 300' driveway redone at the lake yesterday.

The guy quoted me $315, which i thought was cheap.

Turns out it was 315 a load.

$3,000 dollars later, it looks great but costs ten times what i thought it was going to cost.

Math, fucking with me.
 
Looks like a new government park road now, all DOT spec and shit.

Tax assessor's wet dream. Boo.
 
4est_4est_Gump said:
In 1822 BC.


Maybe we need more students of antiquities to read through the unread tablets.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...bylonian-tablet-rewrites-history-maths-could/
Click to expand...

The proof of the trig table is new, but we've always known they calculated in base 60, and it's been pretty obvious why- because they were concerned with circles and triangles, both for practical geometry and astral calculations. The fact that they chose base 60 demonstrates all by itself a very high order of mathematical thinking and previous experience. As a side note, this is the origin of the 360 degree circle, the 24 hour day, the sixty second minute and the sixty minute hour.
 
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