{"id":110,"date":"2009-09-25T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/?p=110"},"modified":"2009-09-25T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T17:39:28","slug":"word-of-the-day-sexagesimal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: sexagesimal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know sexagesimal was a word until today.\u00c2\u00a0 Indeed, I think that most spell checkers will flag it as a misspelling.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet it is real.\u00c2\u00a0 And you can probably guess what it means: base-60 numeric.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t occur to me that anyone would formalize it as a number system, but apparently it did to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spirasolaris.ca\/sbb1sup1.html\">Babylonians<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psinvention.com\/zoetic\/base60.htm\">Sumerians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfa.harvard.edu\/iau\/SpaceJunk\/SpaceJunk.html\">common in astronomy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know sexagesimal was a word until today.\u00c2\u00a0 Indeed, I think that most spell checkers will flag it as a misspelling.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet it is real.\u00c2\u00a0 And you can probably guess what it means: base-60 numeric. It didn&#8217;t occur to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/?p=110\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilyness.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}