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To: Bob

I was interested to find that the Sumerians and Babylonians used Base 60 math. There's an interesting web site that discusses this:

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Babylonian_numerals.html


83 posted on 11/08/2005 10:04:43 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: MineralMan

Try looking up "factorial bases". There's a mind-blower.


101 posted on 11/08/2005 10:49:52 AM PST by ctdonath2
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