Sexagesimal Definition

Sexagesimal Sentence Examples

• The Babylonian system was sexagesimal, thus (18) --

• This whole class seems to cling to sites of Phoenician trade, and to keep clear of Greece and the north -- perhaps a Phoenician form of the 129 system, avoiding the sexagesimal multiples.

• The Babylonians adopted 60 for both these purposes, thus giving us the sexagesimal division of angles and of time.

• The Greeks originally used unit-fractions, like the Egyptians; later they introduced the sexagesimal fractions of the Babylonians, extending the system to four or more successive subdivisions of the unit representing a degree.

• In the sexagesimal system the numerators of the successive fractions (the denominators of which were the successive powers of 60) were followed by', ", "', ", the denominator not being written.