SEXAGESIMAL
Sexagesimal
Sexagesimal is a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, it was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and it is still used — in a modified form — for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Sexagesimal
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sexagesimal
Noun
- a sexagesimal fraction
Adjective
- of, pertaining by, proceeding by, or based on the number sixty
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