sexagesimal in English

adjective
1
of, relating to, or reckoning by sixtieths.
2
of or relating to the number sixty.
In ancient Babylon a sexagesimal system, that is a base of 60, was in use.
noun
1
a fraction based on sixtieths (i.e., with a denominator equal to a power of sixty), as in the divisions of the degree and hour.
The first deals with integers, the second with proper common fractions, the third with improper fractions, and finally the fourth with sexagesimals .

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1. 47.60254 Centesimal system Sexagesimal units in degrees, minutes and seconds a 189.32165 b

2. The Centesimal Stopwatch application allows to measure the time in system Centesimal and sexagesimal, you can register unlimited laps ⏱

3. Problem 2: Convert the following angles from the Centesimal system to sexagesimal units in degrees, minutes and seconds (show your work): a

4. To this number you add the years which have elapsed of the current shashtyabda or sexagesimal samvatsara , and the sum is the correspond - ing year of the era of Vikramaditya . . . .

5. By 130 AD, Ptolemy, influenced by Hipparchus and the Babylonians, was using a symbol for 0 (a small circle with a long overbar) within a sexagesimal numeral system otherwise using alphabetic Greek numerals.

6. • Almagest Books 1 and 2 • the celestial sphere • numbers and angles (sexagesimal base-60) • obliquity and latitude and the related instruments • plane geometry and trigonometry, the chord tables • spherical trigonometry, circles on the celestial sphere