number

Sixty

Numbers & forms

A sexagesimal round used in Mesopotamian and later time and angle talk. Minutes, degrees, and ordinary sixties are different jobs of the count.

Also known as 60

Mesopotamian tradition

  • Sixty appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

    MUL.APIN’s sexagesimal sky arithmetic seats sixty among the working base of the list. A named sixty in that compendium, not three-hundred-sixty as the circle count already filed and not twelve as the month count.

    from Hermann Hunger and David Pingree · MUL.APIN, 1989 (this edition); tablets earlier

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sources

  • MUL.APIN · Hermann Hunger and David Pingree

    Hermann Hunger and David Pingree, MUL.APIN.