Article 307M7 Forget trigonometry, cos Babylonians did it better 3700 years ago - by counting in base 60!

Forget trigonometry, cos Babylonians did it better 3700 years ago - by counting in base 60!

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Those of you who can remember trigonometry can feel free to forget it, because ancient Babylonian mathematicians had a better way of doing it - using base 60!"

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