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why 360 ?


Subject: why 360 ?
From: Richard B. Emerson (navsys@XXX.XXX)
Date: Sat Dec 01 2001 - 22:24:55 EST


Because that's how the Babylonians did it. They, I think, used a
numbering system that favored base 60 and 360 is six sixties.

Rick
S/V One With The Wind, Baba 35

Yourname Here writes:
> Why does a circle have 360 degrees ?





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