sexagesimal|sexagesimals in English

noun

[,sex·a'ges·i·mal || ‚seksə'dʒesɪməl]

fraction which the denominator is 60 or a power of 60

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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