🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

षष्टी आधार

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shashti adhar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
sexagesimal/ˌsɛksəˈdʒɛsɪməl/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"प्राचीन बेबीलोन की संख्या प्रणाली षष्टी आधार पर आधारित थी।"

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to or based on the number sixty, or counting by sixties.

    "Ancient Babylonian astronomy used a sexagesimal numbering system."
As noun
  1. 1

    A sexagesimal fraction or number.

    "Calculations in astronomy often require breaking degrees down into sexagesimals."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

From Latin sexagesimus ('sixtieth'), from sexaginta ('sixty'), from sex ('six').

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