Re: ConNumbers
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 9, 1999, 6:29 |
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On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Tom Wier wrote:
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>
> > If I recall rightly, the Babylonians have been the first attested culture
> > with a base-12 system, of which traces abound in lots of languages.
>
> Are you sure? I know their main system was based on 60, which
> is why time is measured the way it is today. I suppose other systems
> could have existed alongside, though.
>
No, not at all - I was trying to recall something from
memory at three o'clock in the morning - my study is currently
stacked with furniture and boxes with books up to the ceiling,
so I've a little trouble getting at my references. Does
wonders for the imagination! But I recall having read something
like this in an old Dutch pop-science magazine, a long
time ago. Anyway, if it isn't true, it ought to be!
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt