Talk:Babylonian numerals
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Shouldn't there be a 0? One needs a 0 to write 60 (or 3600, 3601, ..) in Babylonian numerals, or..? Guaka 13:39, 6 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- There were a zero but after; in the beginning the babylonians begun with no zero, 101 was written as 11. See the french page. Ellisllk 11:47, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
In the absense of Unicode support, the French version has some nifty images (such as [1] (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chiffre-babylonien-1.png)) for the numbers. Perhaps we should copy them. The French versions also mentions a decimal and a mixed decimal/sexagesimal system. -- ALoan (Talk) 19:31, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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Why base-60
Really, why base-60? That should be covered in this article. -- AllyUnion (talk) 19:28, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
![[1]](http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chiffre-babylonien-1.png){kind=link}