Sexagesimal

It also doesn't fit into the Babylonians' sexagesimal system that is based on 60 and 12 the same system that gave us 60 minutes in an hour and two sets of 12 hours in a day. ❋ Gahl Eden Sasson (2011)

While base 60 seems like the creation of an extraordinarily fertile imagination, sexagesimal has historical pedigree. ❋ Alex Bellos (2010)

The Babylonians, who made great advances in math and astronomy, embraced the Sumerian sexagesimal base, and later the Egyptians, followed by the Greeks, based their time-counting methods on the Babylonian way—which is why, to this day, there are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. ❋ Alex Bellos (2010)

He has written out tables of factors in a base 60, or sexagesimal, system, and stared in wonder at the patterns they revealed. ❋ Alex Bellos (2010)

But the ancient Sumerians eschewed simplicity and, counting various bones in each finger, came up with the 60-based, vaguely erotic sexagesimal numerical system. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ptolemy could have worked out those epicycles much faster with Pentium-based hardware although the IEEE sexagesimal floating fraction standard is pretty dodgy. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The Sumerians and Akkadians normally used a sexagesimal numbering system, the basis of our division of the hour and minute into 60 units. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Aside from our common decimal scale, there exist in the English language other methods of counting, some of them formal enough to be dignified by the term _system_ -- as the sexagesimal method of measuring time and angular magnitude; and the duodecimal system of reckoning, so extensively used in buying and selling. ❋ Levi Leonard Conant (N/A)

Babylonians of old found that singularly curious system, the sexagesimal. ❋ Levi Leonard Conant (N/A)

Hence, while one race may use a decimal, another a quinary-vigesimal, and another a sexagesimal scale, and while one system may actually be inherently superior to another, no user of one method of reckoning need ever think of any other method as possessing practical inconveniences, of which those employing it are ever conscious. ❋ Levi Leonard Conant (N/A)

In the case of the subsidiary base 12, for which the Teutonic races have always shown such a fondness, the dozen and gross of commerce, the divisions of English money, and of our common weights and measures are probably an outgrowth of this preference; and the Babylonian base, 60, has fastened upon the world forever a sexagesimal method of dividing time, and of measuring the circumference of the circle. ❋ Levi Leonard Conant (N/A)

In his _Chronology of Ancient Nations_ he gives the sum of a geometric progression and shows how, in order to avoid any possibility of error, the number may be expressed in three different systems: with Indian symbols, in sexagesimal notation, and by an alphabet system which will be touched upon later. ❋ David Eugene Smith (1902)

Babylonian sexagesimal system and connected with the solar year conceived as consisting of 360 days. ❋ Unknown (1894)

The unit in the sexagesimal -- the number sixty -- is assigned to Anu, the chief of the triad, while the other two members, Bel and Ea, follow as fifty and forty respectively. ❋ Morris Jastrow (1891)

Last night I used the [sexagesimal E.T. dreidel-spinning finger fucking double shaft licking half foot mouth party] +2 with [my lady] friends. It is now my favorite position, and [I refuse] to use anything else. ❋ Im Judy :) (2017)