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3,700-year-old Babylonian stone tablet gets translated, changes history
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"Having many more right triangles for a unit length" would have an incredible benefit in constructing enormous triangly things.
Instead becoming more acute about triangly things... we were more obtuse and went base ten
Well yeah, who's got 60 fingers? I mean sure, there's Fingers Georg, but that guy's weird.
People used to count 12 knuckles times 5 fingers for a total base 60.
Using only 5+5 fingers is the dumbed down version.
Wasn't it the Sumerians that did use base 60 and just went to counting knuckles and joints to get to the base 60 system ... never fully understood it when I read about it either
Here is a demonstration
https://mathsciencehistory.com/2021/11/09/count-to-60-with-your-phalanges/
Sumerians and Babylonians used the same cuneiform writing system with a base of 6Γ10, but it seems like they also used to count to 60 as 12Γ5... and what we're left with, is the simplified 5+5=10.
Also, we shall remember that:
π ππ°π πππ ππ πππ΅ π πππ π ππ π ππ π΅π€ πππ π¬πΎπ
Now Iβm wondering why the Babylonians didnβt have giant triangle shaped orbital habitats.