10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEXAGESIMALLY»
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sexagesimally in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Abstraction and Representation: Essays on the Cultural ...
This leads to the answer to the above question: Precisely those rational numbers
(i.e., quotients of two integers) can be represented sexagesimally, whose
denominator after reduction into lowest terms only contains the numbers 2, 3, and
5 as ...
2
A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts: ...
An Integrated Family of Numbers and Measures A remarkable feature of all the
mentioned Mesopotamian (proto-cuneiform, Sumerian, and Old Babylonian)
systems of measures is that they are “sexagesimally adapted”. What this means
is that ...
3
The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process
Although formally the notation could derive from the bisexagesimal systems, for
which see directly, there are sufficient indications that all such vessels were
counted sexagesimally. 18. Possible representations of high-status humans
include ...
4
Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History
Third, in his conversions from square cubits to area measure he avoided dividing
by 49s and 7s, which are sexagesimally irregular numbers. Instead he compared
multiples of these numbers with the value in square cubits in order to establish ...
5
The Exact Sciences in Antiquity
In the latter all numbers were written strictly sexagesimally, regardless of whether
they were integers or fractions. In Greek astronomy, however, only the fractions
were written sexagesimally, whereas for integer degrees or hours the ordinary ...
6
The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth ...
This system of fixed ratios, linking the smallest to the largest unit by means of
multiples of sexagesimally round numbers, was likely the product of
bureaucracies servicing the needs of the temples and latterly the courts of
transregional empires ...
Iain Morley, Colin Renfrew, 2010
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The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo
Indeed, the canons to the Castilian Alfonsine Tables, chapter 10:15, give the
difference in days between the era of the Arabs and the Persian era
sexagesimally. There is also a list of differences between eras in the Khwarizml
zij (in the Latin ...
José Chabás, Bernard R. Goldstein, 2003
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Chasing Shadows: Mathematics, Astronomy, and the Early ...
Thus, for example, the numbers 35 86 411 are rendered sexagesimally as 35 1,
26 6, 51 since 86 = 1×60+26 and 411 = 6× 60+ 51. To represent numbers
sexagesimally, scholars have developed conventional notation, which is now ...
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Journal of the Society of Arts
In the earlier days of trigonometry, the radius, as well as the arc, was divided
sexagesimally. This division dated from the time of Ptolemy, if,not of some
previous astronomer, and continued long after the introduction of decimal
notation in ...
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Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
In the earlier days of trigonometry, the radius, as well as the arc, was divided
sexagesimally. .This division dated from the time of Ptolemy, if not of some
previous astronomer, and continued long after the introduction of decimal
notation in ...
Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), 1856
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEXAGESIMALLY»
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Linux commits 4.2 release candidate within days of Kernel 4.1
Sexagesimally possibly, Linus? Apparently your neighbours in Denmark sometimes use a base-20 system? "The reason for that huge number of lines is largely ... «Inquirer, Jul 15»
Tomorrow, the world is getting one extra second – what are you …
It was actually Muslim scholars around the year 1,000 that divided the mean solar day into 24 hours, each of which was subdivided sexagesimally, that is into the ... «ZME Science, Jun 15»
