Posted on 08/04/2021 8:55:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
It turns out that I still have my CRC Handbook of Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables! Yay, me!
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Crib notes for Jerry’s move smuggled into the bedroom by a Babylonian George Costanza . . . at bottom is the swirl at the end.
I STILL HAVE MINE, TOO!......................... somewhere...................
Crib notes for Jerry’s move smuggled into the bedroom by a Babylonian George Costanza . . . at bottom is the swirl at the end.
I use the triplets all the time. I built my wife an 8x10 raised flower bed, I used 3, 4, 5 feet to make it square.
I’m still working on my 5,000 year project. I need an optics designer, a business manager, marketing and several other key positions filled.
Anyone who wants to be a part of the ultimate conservative humanitarian project FReep mail me.
You’ll need to sign an NDA (pretty mild, 0.01% of the project’s expected duration) for further details.
I’m working on the patent application and the attorney says I need to expand its scope, I need a bit of help on some of the finer details and the further enabling technology.
Oh, good Lord! I still have my precious Post Versalog slide rule two! Oh, just look at that beauty!
Freepmail me if you’re serious
60’s pretty handy, imagine dividing the spoils of war, the inheritance in a large family, or the grain on a farm evenly by 60, 30, 20, 15, 12, 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 recipients.
Dead simple in base 60.
We have no trouble thinking of a quarter hour as 15 minutes, although we don’t actually think of it, we just know it.
You have FReepmail.
Dead simple in base 60.
We have no trouble thinking of a quarter hour as 15 minutes, although we don’t actually think of it, we just know it.
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Ah, true! Don’t know why I didn’t think of 60 minutes in an hour, which we are use to. Although come to think of it, this has the implication that their base 60 system and our 60 minutes in an hour might have a common ancestor.
Wonder how that number 60 was arrived at. Interesting to think about. We could have, seemingly, used 10 “minutes” in an “hour” and 10 “hours” in a day, but somehow we have 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day. Gets kind of mysterious when you stop to think about it.
I still have mine on a bookshelf right behind me. My old slide rule is buried in a drawer somewhere.
Looks like a peanut butter cookie.
their unique base 60 number system means that only some Pythagorean shapes can be used,”
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This has been longly fascinating to me. Base 60 is so central to so much today. Pretty soon it will be called white supremacist, or racist.
60 minutes (both in time and in angles)
60 seconds (see above)
360 days in a year (close enough, and it is possible that the years got longer, IMO)
24 hours goes into 60 exactly 2.5 times (under the old math from my youth)
360 degrees in a circle
These people were not primitive and barbaric as we were frequently told. In fact, mankind has been going downhill from the Creation described in the Book of Genesis.
Good day!
All our modern clocks use Base 60....................
It is angle related. A circle is 360 degrees but you can think about it in minutes in seconds as well. So, if due north is 00:00 then due south is 30:30. Northeast is 07:30.
I do not know when it became time related.
Its why we have 60 minutes in an hour—and not 100.
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