To: BenLurkin
The sexagesimal system never made much sense for people who had five fingers on each hand. But if the Sumerians were taught math by ET visitors who had six fingers on each hand...
8 posted on
08/24/2017 7:59:40 PM PDT by
Publius
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To: Publius
I guess apparently a sexagesimal system does makes sense — if someone is trying to build an accurate trigonometric table. Even without aliens.
9 posted on
08/24/2017 8:02:08 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Publius
>> The sexagesimal system never made much sense for people who had five fingers on each hand. But if the Sumerians were taught math by ET visitors who had six fingers on each hand...
60/5 = 12
360/60 = 6
60/12 = 5
They did have a logic to the system, but clearly the metric system turned out to be much more comprehensible.
Here’s more: https://youtu.be/R9m2jck1f90
There are tons of great information on the history of mathematics at your fingertips. I found this book extremely awesome, A History Of Pi by Petr Beckmann - https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=10jABQAAQBAJ.
19 posted on
08/24/2017 8:34:50 PM PDT by
lefty-lie-spy
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To: Publius; BenLurkin; Salamander; JoeProBono
"The sexagesimal system never made much sense for people who had five fingers on each hand. But if the Sumerians were taught math by ET visitors who had six fingers on each hand..."![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ISeYzu2OxTo/UGccniXzIjI/AAAAAAAAGNk/VZmLB3TGmjo/s1600/Giorgio+A+Tsoukalos.gif)
43 posted on
08/24/2017 11:11:36 PM PDT by
shibumi
(Quoth the Squonk...(sniff!...sob!))
To: Publius
The sexagesimal system never made much sense for people who had five fingers on each hand. But if the Sumerians were taught math by ET visitors who had six fingers on each hand...
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60 is a highly composite number and is very convenient for making astronomical calculations. They were very good at predicting eclipses, too.
46 posted on
08/25/2017 3:34:36 AM PDT by
Moonman62
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To: Publius
56 posted on
08/25/2017 5:20:14 AM PDT by
smileyface
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