A trigonometric tablet, 3,700 years old is now being
revisited and studied because that old clay tablet
shows evidence of an understanding of trigonometry
1,000 years before it was previously thought to be
understood.
Thank you INDIA for giving us the number "0" for
without "0" we would not have 01 or 10 and binary,
so thanks to India for Binary! Before India created
zero, binary was not possible.
Now we just noticed that the Babylonians studied
trigonometry very long ago, before the Greeks.
We call this Trigonometry "Base 60", instead of
base 10. There are advantages to the base 60
math VS. base 10 math. It is easier to deal in
multiples of three and Base 60 is easier to compare
to a clock and measurement of time.
Can a 60 second and sixty minute clock be applied
to our world in any other way?
Albert Einstein believed in a close connection
between time and space so much that he thought
of time and space as one single fabric or the
continuum of space-time.
Base 60 math appears to be more efficient with
certain types of calculations than base 10, which
could be characterized as the metric system.
What would we call the Base 60 system based on
the 3,700 year old tablet it was found on?
Let's study the Akkadian language which was
spoken all over Babylon and Mesopotamia at the
time to find out and learn more about the
base 60 (base-60) math.
First let's look at base 60 math:
Plymtom 322 (Plimton-322?)
Base 60 math can describe the Pythagorian theorem.
Examples include:
1/3 = 20, 1/4 = 15, 1/5 = 12, 1/8 = 7.30
Questions:
- Does Base-sixty math seem usefull to you?
- Does this base sixty math make a difference in century 21?
- Trigonometry enthusiasts, are we on to something relevent?
- Is the 3,700 year old Babylonian TRIG. tablet meaningless?
- Can YOU apply base-60 math to reality?
- Is base 60 mathematics usefull?
Base sixty is awesome beacuse 60 is divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 10. Also base 12 is probably better than base 10 because 12 is divisible by 1,2,3,4 and 6.
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Do I need to forget something and learn a new new math? OR does the brain handle it automatically?
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You can use base ten symbols like this
6x602+7x60 +4 expresses a number like in base sixty. Then if you divide by 3, you get 2x602+2x60 +21+20x60-1. So there is no repeating series of fraction in this example.
It's a complicated way of doing things. Now in decimal the same number will end in a repeating decimal of 3.
Basically when you divide by 3 a remainder of 1 becomes 20 in the next term whereas in decimal 3 goes into the next term and al of the other terms basically.
So no your brain has to
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Thank you @leprechaun for your analysis.
This is interesting, comparing maths of different types. I still think we could use some new type of math, even though some of you think we have enough???
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I read about an accountant that learned how to do base 8 math in her head. 24+24=50 (base 8). She then couldn't do base ten calculations in her head because of the her intuition was confused. The equation above in base ten means 20+20=40.
You can express any repeating decimal as a fraction with nines and possibly zeroes on the bottom.
Take 1/7 = 0.572814572814572814....
As a fraction that is 572814/999999
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