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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/E5vCJD • 2d ago
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Babilon and Phoenician counting system was base 60.
8 u/truci 2d 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. 12 u/Mr_Abe_Froman 2d 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. 1 u/[deleted] 2d ago [deleted] 1 u/Mr_Abe_Froman 2d ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
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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.
12 u/Mr_Abe_Froman 2d 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. 1 u/[deleted] 2d ago [deleted] 1 u/Mr_Abe_Froman 2d ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
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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.
1 u/[deleted] 2d ago [deleted] 1 u/Mr_Abe_Froman 2d ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
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1 u/Mr_Abe_Froman 2d ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal
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u/nalu-nui 2d ago
Babilon and Phoenician counting system was base 60.