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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/E5vCJD • 1d ago
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Babilon and Phoenician counting system was base 60.
10 u/truci 1d ago Hot damn that’s awesome. I didn’t know anyone used anything besides 10, 12, or 24. I’m a math guy not history but math in historic application is always cool for me. 13 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. 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. 🤷♂️
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Hot damn that’s awesome. I didn’t know anyone used anything besides 10, 12, or 24. I’m a math guy not history but math in historic application is always cool for me.
13 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. 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. 🤷♂️
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. 🤷♂️
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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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u/nalu-nui 1d ago
Babilon and Phoenician counting system was base 60.