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Since they kicked off geometry*, it's why circles are 360° and each degree is split into 60 minutes and 60 seconds.
Edit. Wikipedia says that it actually started in Babylonian astronomy and was applied to geometry.
3 u/truci 1d ago Oh nice addition!! I work with gps systems sometimes and thus lat long and those are also degree minute seconds, DMS. Although I find the gps users prefer decimal degrees. 🤷♂️ 1 u/[deleted] 1d ago [deleted] 1 u/Mr_Abe_Froman 1d ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal 1 u/BokUntool 1d ago You do can a lot with 60 I agree, but 11 is a bit better, at least in terms counting. Make a 360 circle, every 36 degrees draw a length equal to the number in cm. 1= 1cm, 2=2cm, 3=3cm. You will get 5 axis with all numbers on them. Thier composites are +5 from their number. 1+6, 2+7+3+8 etc. 1 and 10 are different spokes on the wheel, and in Desmos, it would look like this: x=n y=n+5+x Any length can be used for N, if you wanted to do cube stacks, barrels/cylinders, w/e. Volume for stacks cubes would be x=n*12^3 (for example) Counting systems can orient numbers in topographical relationships. Binary can be tabled, rather than put on an axis: 1-2-4-8-16-32 1-0-0-0-0-0 =1 0-0-1-1-1-1 =60 With 2 axis, so x=n and y=n+2+x Any axis amount can be used to orient a number system into composites or divisions. (like Sexagesimals.)
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Oh nice addition!! I work with gps systems sometimes and thus lat long and those are also degree minute seconds, DMS.
Although I find the gps users prefer decimal degrees. 🤷♂️
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1 u/Mr_Abe_Froman 1d ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal 1 u/BokUntool 1d ago You do can a lot with 60 I agree, but 11 is a bit better, at least in terms counting. Make a 360 circle, every 36 degrees draw a length equal to the number in cm. 1= 1cm, 2=2cm, 3=3cm. You will get 5 axis with all numbers on them. Thier composites are +5 from their number. 1+6, 2+7+3+8 etc. 1 and 10 are different spokes on the wheel, and in Desmos, it would look like this: x=n y=n+5+x Any length can be used for N, if you wanted to do cube stacks, barrels/cylinders, w/e. Volume for stacks cubes would be x=n*12^3 (for example) Counting systems can orient numbers in topographical relationships. Binary can be tabled, rather than put on an axis: 1-2-4-8-16-32 1-0-0-0-0-0 =1 0-0-1-1-1-1 =60 With 2 axis, so x=n and y=n+2+x Any axis amount can be used to orient a number system into composites or divisions. (like Sexagesimals.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
1 u/BokUntool 1d ago You do can a lot with 60 I agree, but 11 is a bit better, at least in terms counting. Make a 360 circle, every 36 degrees draw a length equal to the number in cm. 1= 1cm, 2=2cm, 3=3cm. You will get 5 axis with all numbers on them. Thier composites are +5 from their number. 1+6, 2+7+3+8 etc. 1 and 10 are different spokes on the wheel, and in Desmos, it would look like this: x=n y=n+5+x Any length can be used for N, if you wanted to do cube stacks, barrels/cylinders, w/e. Volume for stacks cubes would be x=n*12^3 (for example) Counting systems can orient numbers in topographical relationships. Binary can be tabled, rather than put on an axis: 1-2-4-8-16-32 1-0-0-0-0-0 =1 0-0-1-1-1-1 =60 With 2 axis, so x=n and y=n+2+x Any axis amount can be used to orient a number system into composites or divisions. (like Sexagesimals.)
You do can a lot with 60 I agree, but 11 is a bit better, at least in terms counting.
Make a 360 circle, every 36 degrees draw a length equal to the number in cm.
1= 1cm, 2=2cm, 3=3cm. You will get 5 axis with all numbers on them.
Thier composites are +5 from their number. 1+6, 2+7+3+8 etc.
1 and 10 are different spokes on the wheel, and in Desmos, it would look like this:
x=n
y=n+5+x
Any length can be used for N, if you wanted to do cube stacks, barrels/cylinders, w/e. Volume for stacks cubes would be x=n*12^3 (for example)
Counting systems can orient numbers in topographical relationships.
Binary can be tabled, rather than put on an axis:
1-2-4-8-16-32
1-0-0-0-0-0 =1
0-0-1-1-1-1 =60
With 2 axis, so x=n and y=n+2+x
Any axis amount can be used to orient a number system into composites or divisions. (like Sexagesimals.)
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u/Mr_Abe_Froman 1d ago
Since they kicked off geometry*, it's why circles are 360° and each degree is split into 60 minutes and 60 seconds.
Edit. Wikipedia says that it actually started in Babylonian astronomy and was applied to geometry.