Base 60 is not more accurate than base 10. Since the Babylonian’s calculated that a year was only 360 days (which is not bad considering they used a stick in the ground to determine how long a year was) it makes sense to use base 60. The Babylonian’s did not understand geometry or trigonometry, they also did not understand right triangles. They discovered that a 3-4-5 was a right triangle, but they could not generalise their results. Euclid is still the Father of Geometry.
I am working on a paper about right triangles that I hope to publish this year, and I am working on a new class of analytic functions that are related to deformation geometry. I love math!
Way to go. That paper and those new functions sound super cool. Math is so much more fun as an adult, knowing how to code, and having the internet. So much high end free knowledge content on the web. We are lucky and probably living in this great time in math - I guess it’s a bit broken but I don’t understand all that godel stuff. Keep up the good work