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Summary Of: Sexagesimalof sexagesimal numbers are simple... In this article sexagesimal digits are represented as decimal numbers... Sexagesimal as used in ancient... a sexagesimal digit was composed of a group of narrow wedge... sexagesimal is not used so much nowadays as a means of general computation or logic... each of the three sexagesimal digits in this number... each position past the sexagesimal point was numbered... although the representation of these fractions as sexagesimal numbers does not depend on such an interpretation... repeat with a period of one or two sexagesimal digits can only have 59 or 61 as denominators... but its sexagesimal expansion begins 1...Encyclodia Page On: Sexagesimal |
