The sexagesimal divisions of hours and degrees. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Babylonians of old found that singularly curious system, the sexagesimal. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
The Sumerians and Akkadians normally used a sexagesimal numbering system, the basis of our division of the hour and minute into 60 units. From Wordnik.com. [b. Economy, Technology, Society, and Culture] Reference
Ptolemy could have worked out those epicycles much faster with Pentium-based hardware although the IEEE sexagesimal floating fraction standard is pretty dodgy. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Electric Ptolemy] Reference
It also doesn't fit into the Babylonians' sexagesimal system that is based on 60 and 12 the same system that gave us 60 minutes in an hour and two sets of 12 hours in a day. From Wordnik.com. [Astrology Myths Debunked: The Truth About Your 'New' Sign] Reference
Hence, while one race may use a decimal, another a quinary-vigesimal, and another a sexagesimal scale, and while one system may actually be inherently superior to another, no user of one method of reckoning need ever think of any other method as possessing practical inconveniences, of which those employing it are ever conscious. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
In the case of the subsidiary base 12, for which the Teutonic races have always shown such a fondness, the dozen and gross of commerce, the divisions of English money, and of our common weights and measures are probably an outgrowth of this preference; and the Babylonian base, 60, has fastened upon the world forever a sexagesimal method of dividing time, and of measuring the circumference of the circle. From Wordnik.com. [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference
The sexagesimal division is peculiarly Babylonian. From Wordnik.com. [India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge] Reference
Mathematics were based upon a sexagesimal system, sixty, called the. From Wordnik.com. [Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs] Reference
Founded upon a sexagesimal numeration, the metrical system of Babylon and. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1] Reference
Sumerian math was a sexagesimal system, meaning it was based on the number 60. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
B. C., accepted the B.bylonian system of reckoning time, that system being sexagesimal. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays] Reference
The Israelite culture used a decimal system while the Sumerian culture used a sexagesimal system. From Wordnik.com. [finitum non capax infiniti] Reference
Babylonian sexagesimal system and connected with the solar year conceived as consisting of 360 days. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
We owe the stable, 60-minute hour to the Greeks, via "the sexagesimal notation of the Mesopotamians.". From Wordnik.com. [The Chicago Blog] Reference
Wherever the sexagesimal system of notation prevailed we may see an evidence of the influence of Babylonian culture. From Wordnik.com. [Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs] Reference
· StringUtil: string utilities including conversion of sexagesimal (dd: mm: ss and hh: mm: ss) strings to and from numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
Across one of the diagonals is scrawled 1,24,51,10 - a sexagesimal number that corresponds to the decimal number 1.41421296. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
They form part of that sexagesimal system of numeration which lay at the root of Babylonian mathematics and was as old as the invention of writing. From Wordnik.com. [Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs] Reference
The natural division of the year into twelve months made this so-called "docenal" and "sexagesimal" system of calculation particularly convenient, and it was applied to everything -- measures of weight, distance, capacity and size as well as time. From Wordnik.com. [Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria] Reference
We retain sexagesimal numbers today in our system for measuring time (60 minutes to an hour) and angles (60 minutes in a degree and 360 degrees in a circle), but it dates back in a straight line to the civilization of the ancient Sumerians more than five thousand years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Watch] Reference
Over a thousand years, the Sumerian alternating-base method was simplified into the sexagesimal system, with the same symbol standing for 1 or 60 or 3,600, depending on its place in the number, Dr. Melville said, just as 1 in the decimal system denotes 1, 10 or 100, depending on its place. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
With respect to the magnetic dip I found it by the compass of Borda (December 1800) 53° 22′ of the old sexagesimal division: twenty-two years before, according to the very accurate observations made by Captain Sabine in his memorable voyage to the coasts of Africa, America and Spitzbergen, the dip was only 51° 55′; it had therefore diminished 1 degree 27 minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference
With respect to the magnetic dip I found it by the compass of Borda (December 1800) 53 degrees 22 minutes of the old sexagesimal division: twenty-two years before, according to the very accurate observations made by Captain Sabine in his memorable voyage to the coasts of Africa, America and Spitzbergen, the dip was only 51 degrees 55 minutes; it had therefore diminished 1 degree 27 minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
BC, second edition, scholar Marc Van De Mieroop states that in Uruk, "a sexagesimal system, relying on units with increments of ten and six, was used to account for animals, humans, and dried fish, among other things. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Watch] Reference
17. sexagesimal. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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