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Wedges counted in sixties.
Also known as: Babylonian numerals, Sexagesimal cuneiform numbers
The Mesopotamian numeral notation, written in wedges and counted in a base of sixty.
Write numbers in a positional system with a base of sixty.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
The oldest positional notation known, and the reason an hour has sixty minutes and a circle three hundred and sixty degrees — a four-thousand-year-old base still running in every clock.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
Had no zero for most of its history, so an empty place was simply a gap and a number could be ambiguous by a factor of sixty; a placeholder was added late and never used at the end of a number.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
Vertical wedges for units and corner wedges for tens, grouped and repeated within a place, the places running in powers of sixty.