degrees and circles

[ongolo]

Tony,

these 0010 kinds of people also understand hex and octal and count in funny increments without any effort 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024.... and so on.

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ongolo

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[ubuysa]

I have a friend in the US who always gave her age in hex because she sounded younger that way. She wasn't so keen when she got to "one dog" and then "one easy", she was delighted to get to "one fox" though!!

Apologies to non-IT readers.............

Tony C.

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[stephenh]

Why are there 360 dgrees in the circle ? - because the Babylonians used a sexagecimal system for all of their counting ( sorry Charles - I disagree with you ....)
So the question is why ?
we don't know - the answer is out there hidden in clay cuniform tablets somewhere but the problem is that archaeologist don't like mathematics and mathematicians don't like archaeology.
If your grandson would like to know more get him to read " The crest of the peacock - Non-european roots of mathematics " -Penguin Books
Happy reading - its quite hard work but worth it...
Stephen

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