This math scares me

[Grant Edwards]

On 16 Mar 2001 19:40:17 -0800, Aahz Maruch <aahz at panix.com> wrote:

>>Paging Ivan Van Laningham.....
>
>Ivan isn't reading c.l.py these days, but he sent me an e-mail response
>that he said I could post:
>
>We get base 60 from the Babylonians, who got it from the Sumerians. 
[...]
>Aztecs and Mayans used base 20, expanded from an earlier base 10 system,
>which appears to have grown from an earlier base 5.

It looks like I had them mixed up with the Babylonians.  I
swear, the denizens of c.l.p have the widest base of knowege of
any newsgroup I've read.

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