Posted on 08/25/2017 9:41:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
You use a base 60 system every day and don’t realize it..................
“the square of the hypotenuse is the sum of the squares of the other two sides.”
Awe come on!
The Cowardly Lion taught us this upon receiving his diploma from the Wizard.
You mean the scarecrow
They were Semitic. Their civilization was more developed than the Greeks in many areas including astronomy and mathematics.
It is nothing to sneer about. There is a reason there is a saying that “history begins in Sumer.”
oh...ya...
thanks!
There is a huge void in the history of man from the neolithic age up until about 10,000 years ago.
That spans about 50k or so years.
What was going on during that time?.........................
Actually he says “The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an Isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side” which is totally incorrect, but is funny.
Are you sure it wasn’t the Tin Man and his courage?......................
It’s great because it’s a better understanding of our world and how civilizations built knowledge. And there’s definitely proof that the Greeks didn’t develop it first. Knowledge is good, whining about knowledge is bad.
But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn’t, didn’t already have
We use base 10 because we have 10 fingers and toes. Maybe they used base 60 because they had 60 fingers/toes?
And why did they need such a base 60 math system in the first place? Or was it a remnant of a previous civilization as yet undiscovered?
Time clocks are base 60, as mentioned in the article, so, yes, it is possible base 60 is a remnant of a previous civilization.
I understand you’ve been running from a man that goes by the name of the Sandman..............
Makes a lot of math easier. 60 divides by a lot of stuff cleaner, including and especially the highly annoying 3. It’s a concept we eventually figured out which led to 60 second minutes, 60 minute hours, and 360 degree circles.
Yeah, that is a fascinating question. Apparently there is evidence of high civilization in Turkey (and perhaps in South America) prior to the Sumerians but not much has been excavated of it yet. Of course, determining the time of something becomes almost a matter of faith when there is no writing.
One of the most fascinating and mysterious sites is Puma Puku in Bolivia or Peru. Too lazy to look it up. But the workmanship of the stones is at today’s standards or better.
And ends in Winter......................Nuclear, that is.............
Puma Piku............Hilliary's original home base?..................
We can read cuneiform because a 19th-century scholar copied the trilingual text of the Behistun inscription (King Darius' account of how he became king of the Persian Empire with the help of Ahura Mazda)...harder to crack than Egyptian hieroglyphics because none of the three texts could be read initially.
Darius was possibly the inventor of the Big Lie.
I recall a poem in their honor from my high school English reader, "Sumer is icumen in."
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