Sexagesimal, also known as base 60, is a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, was...

year. The use of a calendar with 360 days may be related to the use of sexagesimal numbers. Another theory is that the Babylonians subdivided the circle...

expressed in fractions of a second, such as 1⁄30 second or 1⁄1000 second. Sexagesimal divisions of the day from a calendar based on astronomical observation...

Harshad number. A number system with base 60 is called sexagesimal (the original meaning of sexagesimal is sixtieth). It is the smallest positive integer that...

Neodymium, the 60th element <, the ASCII character with code 60 Base 60 (sexagesimal, sexagenary) "Sixty", a song by Karma to Burn from the album Mountain...

is the highest integer a single symbol may represent in the base-60 sexagesimal system. 59 is one of the factors that divides the smallest composite...

approximation of 2 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {2}}} accurate to three significant sexagesimal digits (about six significant decimal digits). Babylonian mathematics...

binary format. Originally, such clocks showed each decimal digit of sexagesimal time as a binary value, but presently binary clocks also exist which...

Omicron Persei. In Claudius Ptolemy's (c. 100–170) Almagest, tables of sexagesimal numbers  1 ... 59  are represented in the conventional manner for Greek...

than 40 years under this system. Al-Biruni first subdivided the hour sexagesimally into minutes, seconds, thirds and fourths in 1000 CE while discussing...