BTW, check this out.

Interesting... the mayas worked on a base 20 system... and were the first culture to represent (invent?) the zero

 

Sex-agesimal...French curves..I'm beginning to see a pattern here.

Hey! Just enjoying some technical intercourse...

 

binary shorthand.

 

Interesting... the mayas worked on a base 20 system... and were the first culture to represent (invent?) the zero

Zero was invented by the Sumerians (300BC) beating the Mayans (350AD) by 650 years. However, the first culture to treat zero as a number was India (458AD). Reference

 

Zero was invented by the Sumerians (300BC) beating the Mayans (350AD) by 650 years. However, the first culture to treat zero as a number was India (458AD). Reference

When I was a kid I was taught that the zero was invented by the Mayas... but that was more than 40 years ago... guess history has been revised, or that my Mexican teachers were too proud of their heritage to admit otherwise...

 

BTW, check this out.

All of the factors are interesting but how can they say it is base 60 when they start carrying the 10s place at 10 and there is no new symbol for 60. For display purposes, it Looks like base 10 to me that only goes up to 60.

 

All of the factors are interesting but how can they say it is base 60 when they start carrying the 10s place at 10 and there is no new symbol for 60. For display purposes, it Looks like base 10 to me that only goes up to 60.

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I guess that could be answered if we knew what happened after 60

 

I guess that could be answered if we knew what happened after 60

I think after 60, you tend to spend your Friday nights talking to people on the internet about meaningless bull shit.

 

All of the factors are interesting but how can they say it is base 60 when they start carrying the 10s place at 10 and there is no new symbol for 60. For display purposes, it Looks like base 10 to me that only goes up to 60.

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So does the fact that we don't have a new symbol for 10 mean that we aren't using base 10?

The digit symbols needed for a base-B number system are the B symbols from 0 to (B-1).

And they aren't carrying the ten's place (but it can look like it at first glance). If that were the case, the symbol in the 10's place would be the same as the digit symbols for 0-9. They simply have a systematic way of creating their 60 symbols (the entire thing is a single digit, it is NOT two different digits written together).

What that table IS missing is the symbol for zero. This is something that was added late in the game and was not used quite the way we use the symbol for zero.

 

I think after 60, you tend to spend your Friday nights talking to people on the internet about meaningless bull shit.

Good Lord.... I'm 50 and I've already reached that phase!

 

I think after 60, you tend to spend your Friday nights talking to people on the internet about meaningless bull shit.

What else would one do? I like intercourse.

 

What else would one do? I like intercourse.

You may like this but I am sure you like another type better, I do.

 

That numbers can be expressed in different bases has been know at least as far back as the reniassance.

 

You may like this but I am sure you like another type better, I do.

After 60?

 

That numbers can be expressed in different bases has been know at least as far back as the reniassance.

Exactly.

 

Good to know you're still years away from andropause...

The important thing is whether the hydraulics still work!

 

The important thing is whether the hydraulics still work!

Yeah... and where to check (and with what) for the oil level...

 

The important thing is whether the hydraulics still work!

But hopefully with leakage more like an F-15 rather than an SR-71.

 

But hopefully with leakage more like an F-15 rather than an SR-71.

Yeah... I'm a big fan of the fast 'ol blackbird...

 

Yeah... I'm a big fan of the fast 'ol blackbird...

Me too, I just don't want to ever leak like one!

Man did that make working on the darn thing a miserable experience, but what a beautiful machine she was.

But being an Eagle Keeper was pretty sweet, too. What a classy lady.