number

Three hundred sixty

Numbers & forms

A round of the circle in degree speech and of some schematic years. Geometry’s convenience and calendar schemes should stay local.

Also known as 360

Mesopotamian tradition

  • Three hundred sixty appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

    MUL.APIN sky-math uses a 360-unit circle of the year and ecliptic speech. A named Mesopotamian 360-count in that compendium, not 365 as the civil year-day count and not a bare circle dump.

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

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • MUL.APIN · Hermann Hunger and David Pingree

    Hermann Hunger and David Pingree, MUL.APIN.