Re: FAA To Finally Ditch Floppy Disks & Win-95

On 6/22/25 2:14 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:24:07 -0400, c186282 wrote:
 

    Still wonder about the Babylonian base-60 thing ...

 Yeah, every time I have to convert degrees/minutes/seconds into something
I can work with. The jury is still out if that can be blamed on them or
not. The French tried to metrify that and more or less failed.
 

   It WAS a really weird system for sure.
   PROBABLY based on 360 degrees, but we
   can't be sure. '
   Odd factoid, the old Greek scientists had
   to change their crap number system to
   Babylonian, do the calx, then convert
   back to the Greek system.
   Anyway, 60 different numbers ... likely twice
   as many symbols as needed to write the main lang.
   Wow.