What is Babylonians' sexagesimal system?

Answer 1

The Babylonian Sexagesimal System is the Babylonian Number System. We use the Hindu-Arabic System with a base 10, while the Ancient Babylonians invented their own number system with a base 60. That's the reason why it's also called the Sexagesimal Number System, it's based on number 60. They used to be printed into baked clay by a stylus. For more information got to the following sites:

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/numbers/babylon/index.htm

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Babylonian_numerals

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Babylonian_numerals.html

There's tons of information there, that's where I got all mine. I'm doing an A2 Math poster on Babylonian Number System and it's supposed to be handed in to my teacher on Wednesday. I've written 2 pages on it already.

Hope that helps......and wish me luck on my poster!