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	Babylonian numerals
		Theon's answer was that 60 was the smallest number divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 so the number of divisors was maximised.
		The suggestion that 60 is the product of the number of months in the year (moons per year) with the number of planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) again seems far fetched as a reason for base 60.
		That the year was thought to have 360 days was suggested as a reason for the number base of 60 by the historian of mathematics Moritz Cantor.
	www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/Babylonian_numerals.html (2091 words)

	Babylonian numerals
		Theon's answer was that 60 was the smallest number divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 so the number of divisors was maximised.
		The suggestion that 60 is the product of the number of months in the year (moons per year) with the number of planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) again seems far fetched as a reason for base 60.
		That the year was thought to have 360 days was suggested as a reason for the number base of 60 by the historian of mathematics Moritz Cantor.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/Babylonian_numerals.html (2091 words)

	overview by happyax (on reddit.com)
		If this is something that is important to me I will choose where I live based on this.
		I am not showing support one way or the other on the topic as a whole.
		I could be under a misconception here, but I don't think I am.
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	Hormel Foods Agri-Nutrition - Newsletters - February 2005
		Based on laboratory analysis to date, it appears that those high yields are translating into frequent low protein tests.
		Based on the above observation it is advisable that producers get their corn tested.
		Pigs on Phase 3 diets are usually at a point where their need for a complex starter diet is decreasing rapidly, but maintaining rapid growth rates still requires that a number of the highly digestible ingredients in Phase 1 and 2 diets are present.
	www.hormelfeeds.com /newsletter0502.asp (1028 words)

	Ancient Base-60 Calculators (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As a tutorial example, the length of a diagonal of a square whose sides are ½ units long is calculated, duplicating the results found on Yale tablet YBC 7289.
		To add or subtract numbers their exponent parts must be equal, so one or both may have to be multiplied by appropriate powers of 60.
		This is accomplished by moving the pebble representation of the a part of a number up or down the table by full sexagesimal digits and adding the number of digits moved to the exponent part, b; an extremely similar process to adding numbers in our scientific notation.
	home.comcast.net /~sks23cu/Resources/B60CB/index.html (1431 words)

	Radix
		In mathematical numeral systems, the base or radix is usually the number of various unique digits, including zero, that a positional number system uses to represent numbers in a given counting system.
		To convert from decimal to another base one must simply start dividing by the value of the other base, then dividing the result of the first division and overlooking the remainder, and so on until the base is larger than the result (so the result of the division would be a zero).
		Then the number in the desired base is the remainders being the most significant value the one corresponding to the last division and the least significant value is the remainder of the first division.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3Dradix%26type%3Den (1171 words)

	Radix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To convert from decimal to another base one must simply start dividing by the value of the other base, then dividing the result of the first division and overlooking the remainder, and so on until the base is larger than the result (so the result of the division would be a zero).
		Then the number in the desired base is the remainders being the most significant value the one corresponding to the last division and the least significant value is the remainder of the first division.
		In computing, the binary (base 2) and hexadecimal (base 16) bases are used.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radix (1335 words)

	Numeral system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Again working in base 10, we use ten different digits 0,..., 9 and use the position of a digit to signify the power of ten that the digit is to be multiplied with, as in 304 = 3×100 + 0×10 + 4×1.
		Sexagesimal numerals were a Mixed radix system that retained the alternating base 10 and base 6 in a sequence of cuneiform vertical wedges and chevrons and was by 1950 BC a positional notation system.
		Thus base 16 (hexadecimal) is commonly used as a shorthand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Numeral_system (3590 words)

	Sexagesimal
		Sexagesimal is a numeral system with number 60 as the base.
		Base 60 has the advantage that its base has a large number of conveniently sized divisors {2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30}, facilitating calculations with fractions.
		The modern use of sexagesimal corresponds very closely with the modern measurement of time, in which there are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in one hour, and 60 seconds in one minute.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Base_60.html (207 words)

	More on Base
		More elegant is a positional system: again working in base 10, we use ten different digits 0,..., 9 and use the position of a digit to signify the power of ten that the digit is to be multiplied with, as in 304 = 3×100 + 0×10 + 4.
		60 is a useful base because it has large number of factors, including all of the first six counting numbers.
		In general, if b is the base, we write a number in the numeral system of base b by expressing it in the form a1bk + a2bk-1 + a3bk-2 +...
	www.artilifes.com /base.htm (2194 words)

	Local News - Goodfellow Air Force Base celebrates 60 years of history
		More than 200 military personnel and civilians were on hand to celebrate 60 years of base history in the very spot the flag was first raised on the same day in 1941.
		The chief mission of the base today, according to group literature, is to develop and deliver training in the cryptologic and general intelligence career fields for the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps as well as to students from certain allied countries and national agencies.
		Garrett said among the base’s numerous achievements are the increasing quality of personnel and the training that the base has provided.
	www.texnews.com /1998/2001/local/base0128.html (601 words)

	farmdoc : Options for Determining Base Acres Under the 2002 Farm Bill (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The soybean acre increase is offset by a 10 acre decrease in corn base.
		Base acres for the case farm under the five options are shown in Table 2.
		Payments from a base acre usually rank as follows: a corn acre has a higher payment than a grain sorghum acre, a grain sorghum acre has higher payments than a wheat acre, a wheat acre has a higher payment than a soybean acre, and a soybean acre has a higher payment than an oat acre.
	www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu /manage/newsletters/fefo02_16/fefo02_16.html (1568 words)

	Science Show - 24/05/2003: Why 60?
		Jill, Duchess of Hamilton: Like the rise and the fall of the currents, the length of each day, each lunar month and each year is related to the waxing and the waning of the moon and the sun, and the rotation of the earth.
		In ancient Babylon a sexagesimal system, that is a base of 60, was in use.
		But there were also many people then who preferred using 12 as a base instead of 10: 12 could be divided by more factors, by 2, 3, 4 and 6 as against poor old 10, which can only be divided by 2 and 5.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s860899.htm (451 words)

	urticator.net - Base 60
		The end result, of course, is that the successor to 59 is 01 00, and that's why the system is described as base 60.
		So, that brings me to another thing I like about base 60, which is that we still use it, in the exact same alternating form, to measure times and angles.
		You can tell from the paragraphs I quoted that the people who speak the language use base 60, with a full sixty symbols, but in the story (Gulf) there's a whole little paragraph about it.
	www.urticator.net /essay/5/503.html (562 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sexagesimal as used in ancient Mesopotamia was not a pure base 60 system, in the sense that they didn't have 60 individual digits for their place-value notation.
		There are 60 minutes of arc in a degree, and 60 seconds of arc in a minute.
		The fact that the adjacent numbers to 60, 59 and 61, are both prime implies that simple repeating fractions that repeat with a period of one or two sexagesimal digits can only have 59 or 61 as denominators, and that other non-regular primes have fractions that repeat with a longer period.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=sexagesimal (572 words)

	Cup waterer and cage mount - Patent 4450789
		To accommodate this variety of mounting positions, the waterer 10 is provided with a mounting base 60 below the cup 14, which is adapted to engage at least one bar of a poultry confinement area, so as to support the waterer 10 on the bar.
		To secure the mounting base 60 to the cup cylinder 70 in either of the two positions in accordance with the invention, lug elements 75, 76 here extend from the cylindrical extension portion 70, as illustrated in FIGS.
		The mounting base 60 defines a recess 77 for receiving and engaging the lugs 75, 76, so as to secure the cup means 14 in the mounting base means 60.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4450789.html (2171 words)

	Santa Cruz County Government - Proposition 60 - Protect Your Prop 13 Base
		Proposition 60 was passed by the voters on November 6, 1986.
		Basically Proposition 60 allows qualified taxpayers to transfer the assessed value of their original residence to a qualifying replacement dwelling.
		A claim for proposition 60 relief must be filed within three years of the date a replacement dwelling is purchased or new construction is completed.
	www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us /tax/60pam.htm (730 words)

	Counting Systems
		From the right, the columns were 60 to the zero power, 60 to the first, 60 squared, 60 cubed etc. An example of this is enmeshed in this paragraph.
		It is widely felt this base 60 number system started with the ideas of the Sumerians and from the Akkadians, whose civilizations the Babylonians replaced.
		A base of 12 would seem a more likely candidate if this were the reason, yet no major civilization seems to have come up with that base.
	www.olypen.com /chinook/new_page_5.htm (561 words)

	Voss Signs LLC, Screen Printing Specialists
		Voss Signs is your least expensive source for portable sign bases made from recycled tire rubber.
		Ideal for anywhere portable outdoor signs are needed, these bases will withstand high winds and will not chip, crack or rust.
		Bases are available with wheels for increased portability.
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	Modular precast spa system - Patent 6854223 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Foundation base 60 can be disc shaped and be formed from a pre-cast material similar to that of L-form 1 previously described.
		The foundation base 60 can be positioned over a selected surface where the water containment holder is to be installed such as but not limited to against a ground surface.
		9, base 60 can be initially placed on a ground surface 110 after which the water containment holder 100 such as the spa is assembled followed by the backfill 120.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /6854223.html (2454 words)

	base systems homework key
		60 (base 8), 57 (base 8), 56 (base 8)
		59:59 (base 60), 1:00:00 (base 60), 1:00:01 (base 60)
		24:00 (base 60), 23:59 (base 60), 23:58 (base 60)
	www.austincc.edu /herbling/base-key.html (105 words)

	Counting Systems
		From the right, the columns were 60 to the zero power, 60 to the first, 60 squared, 60 cubed etc. An example of this is enmeshed in this paragraph.
		It is widely felt this base 60 number system started with the ideas of the Sumerians and from the Akkadians, whose civilizations the Babylonians replaced.
		A base of 12 would seem a more likely candidate if this were the reason, yet no major civilization seems to have come up with that base.
	olypen.com /chinook/new_page_5.htm (561 words)

	Vodafone NZ - Base plans
		Base plans are available from 1 June 2006.
		To transfer onto a Base plan from another Vodafone plan, you must sign a new agreement for a 36 month term from the date of connection to the Base plan.
		Base plans are not available to Corporate or Government customers.
	www.vodafone.co.nz /pricing_plans/base.jsp (464 words)

	similarminds.com :: View topic - Base
		Based on my understanding of historicity I maintain that base 10 has got to be selected due to that it has given the most rapid overall progress.
		Base 12 is fairly interesting, because we could easily divide by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12..
		With bases 2, 4, 8, or 16 you can't use the maximal one-look-count capacity of human perception efficiently and you have to settle for one-look-count of four leaving you at 4 times 4 times 4 (1000000 in binary, 64 in decimal).
	www.similarminds.com /forums/viewtopic.php?p=8764&highlight= (2223 words)

	Babylonian mathematics
		Writing developed and counting was based on a sexagesimal system, that is to say base 60.
		However the Babylonian civilisation, whose mathematics is the subject of this article, replaced that of the Sumerians from around 2000 BC The Babylonians were a Semitic people who invaded Mesopotamia defeating the Sumerians and by about 1900 BC establishing their capital at Babylon.
		It was a positional system with a base of 60 rather than the system with base 10 in widespread use today.
	www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/Babylonian_mathematics.html (1607 words)

	Emedco.com Stanchions & Systems - PVC
		60 lb Bases are available with wheels to make them simple to roll into place; ideal when Stanchion needs to be moved frequently.
		Base is an excellent choice for Stanchions that are moved and stored often.
		Base provides maximum stability in areas where you want to mount a sign but you can't use a post.
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	Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math
		It came up in class today, and the best answer that I had was that maybe the Babylonians did it to coincide with their base 60 system.
		So in particular, you are quite correct in that the degree is derived from the Babylonian base 60 numerical system.
		Hours and minutes are similarly divided into 60's (of course, there are minutes of time and minutes of angle - there are 60 minutes in a degree, and, similarly, there are seconds of time and seconds of degree - there are 60 seconds in a minute, 3600 in a degree).
	www.mathforum.com /library/drmath/view/52546.html (429 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Shetland & Orkney - Flag falls on Unst RAF base after 60 years (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ALMOST 60 years of air-defence operations on the remote island of Unst ended yesterday when the Royal Air Force withdrew from the base.
		The decision to shut the base followed a Ministry of Defence review that found its strategic location was no longer needed in the post-Cold War world.
		The decision was described as devastating by some councillors and politicians, as the base has been the island's economic mainstay and main employer for almost 60 years.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=860&id=316572006 (634 words)

	3-Lib Series 60 Knowledge base
		It's true that the Series 60 Calendar is still some way behind that of the UIQ and Series 80 applications in terms of advanced scheduling.
		The theory behind the Gallery application on most Series 60 smartphones is a good one, and being able to browse through (possibly hundreds) of photo thumbnails makes it easy to find the image you're looking for.
		All Series 60 version 2 smartphones (from the Nokia 6600 onwards) have a special 'reformat' function built into their ROM, but you have to know exactly how to activate it and need to be fairly dexterous.
	3lib.ukonline.co.uk /knows60.htm (4157 words)

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