Paphos Life

Dominic wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 6:25 pm I once read a book on numbers. Actually, I started reading it. I didn't get through it I am afraid. It was full of little quirks like how it is weird how we say "Four thousand" but "Twenty Four" instead of "Four Twenty". It also mentioned the Sumarians and Babylonians counting in Base 60, which is why we have 60 seconds etc. I thought this exceptionally odd until I read somewhere else that it was easy to count in base 60 if you employed not just your fingers, but your knuckles too.

Who knows what wonders I would have learned had I persevered with that book?

ApusApus wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 8:09 pm

Dominic wrote: ↑Mon May 29, 2017 6:25 pm I once read a book on numbers. Actually, I started reading it. I didn't get through it I am afraid. It was full of little quirks like how it is weird how we say "Four thousand" but "Twenty Four" instead of "Four Twenty". It also mentioned the Sumarians and Babylonians counting in Base 60, which is why we have 60 seconds etc. I thought this exceptionally odd until I read somewhere else that it was easy to count in base 60 if you employed not just your fingers, but your knuckles too.

Who knows what wonders I would have learned had I persevered with that book?

It wasn't titled "Pi" by any chance ............ guess you wouldn't be able to finish it if it was?


Shane