Fascinating. That is very new information for me. Interesting that a people who counted on their fingers were also able to figure out the pattern to predicting Lunar eclipses (hence the reference in Daniel to "magicians and Chaldeans").
Thanks, Charlie H. David Megginson wrote: > 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 -- "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
