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  2. Sexagesimal - Wikipedia

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    Sexagesimal, also known as base 60, [1] is a numeral system with sixty as its base.It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and is still used—in a modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates.

  3. Babylonian cuneiform numerals - Wikipedia

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    Babylonian cuneiform numerals The Babylonians , who were famous for their astronomical observations, as well as their calculations (aided by their invention of the abacus ), used a sexagesimal (base-60) positional numeral system inherited from either the Sumerian or the Akkadian civilizations. [ 1 ]

  4. Babylonian mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The Babylonian system of mathematics was a sexagesimal (base 60) numeral system. From this we derive the modern-day usage of 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 degrees in a circle. [8] The Babylonians were able to make great advances in mathematics for two reasons.

  5. 60 (number) - Wikipedia

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    Babylonian cuneiform numerals. The Babylonian cuneiform numerals had a base of 60, inherited from the Sumerian and Akkadian civilizations, and possibly motivated by the large number of divisors that 60 has. [citation needed] The sexagesimal measurement of time and of geometric angles is a legacy of the Babylonian system.

  6. Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The Israelite system of powder/liquid volume measurements corresponds exactly with the Babylonian system. Unlike the Egyptian system, which has units for multiples of 1, 10, 20, 40, 80, and 160 of the base unit, the Babylonian system is founded on multiples of 6 and 10, namely units of 1, 12, 24, 60, 72 (60 plus 12), 120, and 720. [1]

  7. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    Sexagesimal numerals were a mixed radix system that retained the alternating bases of 10 and 6 that characterized tokens, numerical impressions, and proto-cuneiform numerical signs. Sexagesimal numerals were used in commerce, as well as for astronomical and other calculations.

  8. Gematria - Wikipedia

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    The gematric value of יין ('wine') is 70 (י =10; י =10; ן =50) and this is also the gematric value of סוד ('secret', ס =60; ו =6; ד =4)‎. [4] Although a type of gematria system ('Aru') was employed by the ancient Babylonian culture, their writing script was logographic, and the numerical assignments they made were to whole words ...

  9. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    60: Sexagesimal: Babylonian numerals and Sumerian; degrees-minutes-seconds and hours-minutes-seconds measurement systems; Ekari; covers base 62 apart from I, O, and l, but including _(underscore). [64] 62: Can be notated with the digits 0–9 and the cased letters A–Z and a–z of the English alphabet. 64: Tetrasexagesimal: I Ching in China.