Sexagesimal is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.
You can make 552 anagrams from letters in sexagesimal (aaeegilmssx).
From the Medieval Latin word sexāgēsimālis, dating back to 1675-85. See Sexagesima, -al1
Gunter had as early as 1620 given the logarithms of sines and tangents on the sexagesimal scale, as far as seven decimals.
It relates to the operations with integers and sexagesimal fractions, including roots, and contains no applications.
Each degree is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute into 60 seconds, according to the sexagesimal division of the circle.
The Babylonians adopted 60 for both these purposes, thus giving us the sexagesimal division of angles and of time.
After that the sexagesimal division system is abandoned, and fractions of seconds are estimated in decimals.
The trigonometrical results are given for every hundred-thousandth of the quadrant (10″ centesimal or 3″.24 sexagesimal).
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