Talk:Sexagesimal
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Symbols used
What symbols were used historically for digits 11-59 in sexagesimal? If those used today (obviously in very narrow practice) are different, what are those, as well?
Today the symbol ':' is used for times (HH:MM:SS) in ISO 8601 and so is a de facto delimiter for sexagesimal digits. So we could have for example
Sexagesimal Decimal
15 15
01:03 63
05:00 300
16:41 1001
02:05:00 7500
I also put the fractions in the article into this notation, keeping the '.' as the sexagesimal point.
Karl 24 March 2004, 21 July 2004
