From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa463d25bcbdaa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Octal number system References: <8h34o0dbc2h70ojvsst879nfkthko7suok@4ax.com> <4186860F.EF6C2749@nospam.com> In-Reply-To: <4186860F.EF6C2749@nospam.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 01:04:29 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.25 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1099357469 63.184.105.25 (Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:04:29 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 17:04:29 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5962 Date: 2004-11-02T01:04:29+00:00 List-Id: Andrew Nowicki wrote: > Sexagesimal system (base 60) was used by the Babylonians. Base 60 is still widely used today. 60 sec/min, 60 min/hr, 60 min/deg, ... -- Jeff Carter "We'll make Rock Ridge think it's a chicken that got caught in a tractor's nuts!" Blazing Saddles 87