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Sexagenary arithmetic
(gcide) | Sexagesimal \Sex`a*ges"i*mal\, a. [Cf. F. sexag['e]simal.]
Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
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Sexagesimal fractions or Sexagesimal numbers (Arith. &
Alg.), those fractions whose denominators are some power
of sixty; as, 1/60, 1/3600, 1/216000; -- called also
astronomical fractions, because formerly there were no
others used in astronomical calculations.
Sexagesimal arithmetic, or Sexagenary arithmetic, the
method of computing by the sexagenary scale, or by
sixties.
Sexagesimal scale (Math.), the sexagenary scale.
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Sexagenary arithmetic
(gcide) | Sexagenary \Sex*ag"e*na*ry\, a. [L. sexagenarius, fr. sexageni
sixty each, akin to sexaginta sixty, sex six: cf.
sexag['e]naire. See Six.]
Pertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by
sixties; sixty years old.
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Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal.
Sexagenary scale, or Sexagesimal scale (Math.), a scale
of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in
treating the divisions of the circle.
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