C. Hotchkiss writes: > IIRC, 360 degrees is Babylonian in origin. For some reason > multiples of 12 and the number 360 was very important to them.
I read that it's how they counted on their fingers. Using your thumb, touch the top third (near the tip) of each finger for 1-4, the middle third (between the two knuckles) of each finger for 5-8, and the bottom third for 9-12. I'm not sure how they combined the second hand with that, but I think that they used only whole fingers there, giving the ability to count from 0-60 on their fingers alone. All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
