Meaning sexagesimal
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sexagesimal"pertaining to 60," 1680s, from Medieval Latin sexagesimalis, from Latin sexagesimus "the sixtieth," from sexaginta "sixty."
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sexagesimal A numerical system based on the number 60, used by the Babylonians. Unwieldy for many applications, and largely supplanted by the number 10 (decimal system), sexagesimal arithmetic presently surviv [..]
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sexagesimal(adj) of or relating to or reckoning in sixtieths
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