[blam]

Thanks to Renfield for the article.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[TexGuy]

From the picture, I think the vulture is trying to tell us that the optometrist on a skiing vacation.

[SunkenCiv]

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[patton]

I have been wondering since the sixties what a cubit is.

“Riiiiight. What’s a cubit?”

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

If the above numbers were written under or beside the “mouth” sign, meaning a “part”, then that indicated fractions. However, in measuring bushels of wheat, often used for payment in Egypt which had no coinage, a specialist system of indicating numerals was used. This took the sign of the human eye with the markings of a falcon’s cheek below it – known as the eye of Horus, above – and broke it into separate parts so that the eyebrow, for instance, equalled one eighth and the pupil one quarter. The fractions then added up to 63/64, so the missing 1/64 was supplied magically by the god Thoth who was responsible for mathematical accuracy.

Now wonder why the babylon's used 60 and 360 as some of basics....of their math systems....?

> An overview of Babylonian mathematics

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The Babylonians had an advanced number system, in some ways more advanced than our present systems. It was a positional system with a base of 60 rather than the system with base 10 in widespread use today. For more details of the Babylonian numerals, and also a discussion as to the theories why they used base 60, see our article on Babylonian numerals.

[Texas Songwriter]

It’s not a tadpole....it is a spermatozoa.....Now you understand the logic of 100,000.