In a message dated 2000/02/15 01:44:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The way to cut the Gordian knot is to throw out everything and start
over with a base 12 numeral system. Then the scientific calculations
and the everyday divisions by 2, 3, 4, and 6 are *both* easy.
Hear hear! The greatest
At 09:16 AM 2/16/00 +0100, you wrote:
Is it known whether the Babylonians, when they chose 360 degrees to a
circle, were more concerned with the convenience of numbers divisible
by 2's and 3's or with the fact that there are 360 days in a year
(within a percent or two)?
--Art
Ptolmey says that
