YODL on Nostr: Just learned of this and now thinking we should have stuck with sexagesimal system ...
Just learned of this and now thinking we should have stuck with sexagesimal system (base 60)
The Babylonians discovered exact sexagesimal trigonometry at least 1500 years before the ancient Greeks discovered trigonometry.•Babylonian exact sexagesimal trigonometry uses exact ratios and square ratios instead of approximation and angles.
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