b'\n_START_ARTICLE_\nPerenampuluhan\n_START_SECTION_\nMatematik Babylon\n_START_PARAGRAPH_\nSistem angka perenampuluhan seperti yang digunakan di Mesopotamia purba bukan was not a pure base-60 system, in the sense that it did not use 60 distinct symbols for its digits. Sebaliknya, abjad cuneiform mengunakan sepuluh sebagai sub-asas in the fashion of a sign-value notation: sebuah angka asas-60 was composed of a group of narrow, wedge-shaped marks mewakili unit dari satu hingga sembilan (Y, YY, YYY, YYYY, ... YYYYYYYYY) dan a group of wide, wedge-shaped marks mewakili hingga lima sepuluh (<, <<, <<<, <<<<, <<<<<). Nilai angka adalah hasil tambah nilai angka bahagian komponennya:_NEWLINE_Angka yang lebih besar daripada 59 were indicated by multiple symbol blocks of this form in place value notation._NEWLINE_Disebabkan ketiadaan simbol yang mewakili sifar dalam sistem pernomboran Sumeria atau Babylon awal, it is not always immediately obvious how a nombor should be interpreted, dan its true value must sometimes have been determined by its context. Later Babylonian texts used a titik untuk mewakili sifar, tetapi hanya di kedudukan tengah, bukannya di sebelah kanan nombor, seperti yang kita lakukan dengan nombor 123,000.\n_START_SECTION_\nPengunaan bersejarah lain\n_START_PARAGRAPH_\nDalam Kalendar Cina, a sexagenary cycle is commonly used, in which days or years are named by positions in a sequence of sepuluh stems dan in another sequence of 12 branches. The same stem dan branch repeat every 60 steps through this cycle._NEWLINE_Sistem angka asas-60 juga telah digunakan dalam budaya lain yang tidak berkaitan dengan budaya Sumeria, contohnya orang Ekagi New Guinea Barat.\n_START_SECTION_\nPengunaan hari ini\n_START_PARAGRAPH_\nUnlike most other numeral systems, sexagesimal is not used so much in modern times as a means for general computations, or in logic, but rather, ia digunakan untuk mengukur sudut, koordinat geografi, dan waktu._NEWLINE_Satu jam masa dibahagikan menjadi 60 minit, dan satu minit dibahagikan menjadi 60 saat. Jadi, ukuran masa seperti "3:23:17" (tiga jam, 23 minit, dan 17 saat) boleh ditafsir sebagi nombor asas-60, iaitu 3\xc3\x9760\xc2\xb2+23\xc3\x9760\xc2\xb9+17\xc3\x9760\xe2\x81\xb0 saat atau persamaannya 3\xc3\x9760\xe2\x81\xb0+23\xc3\x9760\xe2\x81\xbb\xc2\xb9+17\xc3\x9760\xe2\x81\xbb\xc2\xb2 jam. As with the ancient Babylonian sexagesimal system, however, each of the three sexagesimal digits in this nombor (3, 23, dan 17) are written using the decimal system._NEWLINE_Similarly, the practical unit of ukuran sudut adalah darjah, dimana terdapat 360 dalam bulatan. Terdapat 60 minit sudut dalam sedarjah, dan 60 saat sudut dalam seminit sudut._NEWLINE_In some usage systems, each position past the sexagesimal point was numbered, using Latin or French roots: prime or primus, seconde atau secundus, tierce, quatre, quinte, etc. To this day we call the second-order part of an hour or of a degree a "second". Pada kurun ke-18, sekurang-kurangnya, 1/60 saat dipanggil "tierce" atau "third"._NEWLINE_A vestige of the sexagesimal system exists in the European dan Canadian dialects of the French language, where the numbers from 70 to 79 are rendered by adding a nombor to 60: 70, for example, renders as soixante-dix (sixty-sepuluh), dan 75 is called soixante-quinze (sixty-fifteen).\n_START_SECTION_\nDalam budaya popular\n_START_PARAGRAPH_\nDalam novel fiksyen sains Methuselah\'s Children, karya Robert A. Heinlein, Heinlein described a future race of super-intelligent humans yang menggunakan sistem angka asas-60, as well as an alphabet of exactly sixty ideographs._NEWLINE_In Stel Pavlou\'s novel Decipher, this nombor system is the center of focus, as the buckyball carbon element is used in the book to store data, dan only base 60 is found to be able to be successfully understood by the computers used in it. At least one popular book uses the spelling "sexigesimal" instead of "sexagesimal," with the latter being the more common spelling of the word._NEWLINE_Book VIII of Plato\'s Republic involves an allegory of marriage centered on the nombor 60\xe2\x81\xb4 = 12,960,000 dan its divisors. This nombor has the particularly simple sexagesimal representation 1:0:0:0:0. Later scholars have invoked both Babylonian mathematics dan music theory in an attempt to explain this passage.\n_START_SECTION_\nContoh\n_START_PARAGRAPH_\nPunca kuasa 2, panjang diagonal segi empat tepat unit, telah diawas approximated by the Babylonians of the Old Babylonian Period (1900 BC - 1650 BC) sebagai 1.414212...\\approx\\frac{30547}{21600}=1:24:51:10=1+\\frac{24}{60}+\\frac{51}{60^2}+\\frac{10}{60^3}_NEWLINE_Because \\sqrt{2} is an irrational nombor, it cannot be expressed exactly in sexagesimal numbers, but its sexagesimal expansion does begin 1:24:51:10:7:46:6:4:44..._NEWLINE_The length of the tropical year in Neo-Babylonian astronomy (see Hipparchus), 365.24579... hari, can be expressed in sexagesimal as 6:5:14:44:51 (6\xc3\x9760 \xef\xbc\x8b 5 + 14/60 + 44/60\xc2\xb2 + 51/60\xc2\xb3) hari. The average length of a year in the Gregorian calendar is exactly 6:5:14:33 in the same notation because the values 14 dan 33 were the first two values for the tropical year from the Alfonsine tables, which were in sexagesimal notation._NEWLINE_Nilai \xcf\x80 yang telah digunakan Greek mathematican dan scientist Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) adalah 3.141666... \xe2\x89\x88 377/120 = 3:8:30 = 3 + 8/60 + 30/60\xc2\xb2. Jamsh\xc4\xabd al-K\xc4\x81sh\xc4\xab, a 15th-century Persian mathematician, calculated \xcf\x80 in sexagesimal numbers to an ketepatan sembilan angka perenampuluhan.'