The base-ten number system we use has not been used by many cultures around the world. Some use base-five because of the number of fingers on a hand. The Babylonians, experts at mathematics, used base-sixty because 60 was conveniently divisible by 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 10,12,15,20,30. It is from the ancient Babylonian number system that we get 24 hours in a day (twice twelve astrological houses in the night), 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. Longitude and latitude are also measured in minutes and seconds with a complete circle having 6X60=360 degrees.
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This is my personal blog. It records notes from whatever I am currently studying, words I want to remember to use correctly, records of other things I want to remember, or an opinion I want to think my way through. Sometimes I publish short stories here. As to who I am, let it suffice to know I am a grandchild (with Madeliene L’Engle) of George MacDonald, a child of the Inklings, and the one who always wonders, “What is behind that wardrobe cabinet?” And, I’m one of the proofreaders/editors for Project Gutenberg, so, yes, I might be the one to blame for missing that wrong letter inserted by our optical character recognition. On the other hand, I may have been the editor who caught all the ones you didn’t find. And, I also have a personal journal online. It holds my innermost thoughts, is occasionally highly personal and opinionated, but is never really interesting.
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Motto: Lex orandi, lex credendi
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Recently someone told me about a coworker who was so puffed up that the inevitable collision with a pin took out half the office. I told her that was Rule Number Eight. See my Rules of Life. Rule Number Eight states that the more you believe you are invincible, the more vincible you become.
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The dwarf on the spot sometimes sees things missed by the travelling giant ranging many countries. —- J.R.R. Tolkien