Normally students struggle with base conversion (things like hex and base 3...) but they had NO PROBLEM with sexegesimal.
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Normally students struggle with base conversion (things like hex and base 3...) but they had NO PROBLEM with sexagesimal. I just said "It's like time. You know how time goes, you get to 59... what's next?
Very natural. Even doing the conversion... because it's just multiplying out the number of seconds.
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Normally students struggle with base conversion (things like hex and base 3...) but they had NO PROBLEM with sexagesimal. I just said "It's like time. You know how time goes, you get to 59... what's next?
Very natural. Even doing the conversion... because it's just multiplying out the number of seconds.
@futurebird interesting I've always spelt it sexagesimal
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@futurebird interesting I've always spelt it sexagesimal
You are probably correct.
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Normally students struggle with base conversion (things like hex and base 3...) but they had NO PROBLEM with sexagesimal. I just said "It's like time. You know how time goes, you get to 59... what's next?
Very natural. Even doing the conversion... because it's just multiplying out the number of seconds.
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@futurebird is the real struggle getting them to stop giggling at “sexagesimal”?
Listen I've taught sixth graders about Uranus. I'm made of teflon.
"It means sixty, not sex." said with the correct dead pan shuts them down. But, you must name the thing they are giggling about and just look ... bored and not impressed.
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Normally students struggle with base conversion (things like hex and base 3...) but they had NO PROBLEM with sexagesimal. I just said "It's like time. You know how time goes, you get to 59... what's next?
Very natural. Even doing the conversion... because it's just multiplying out the number of seconds.
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So many factors...
wait ... did they make up their numbers after the triangle formula?
3 * 4 * 5 = 60.
but also 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2.Curses! python... int(n, base) only supports bases between 2 and 36.
There is a little function in the code I linked that does what you want called def numberToBase(n, b)
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Normally students struggle with base conversion (things like hex and base 3...) but they had NO PROBLEM with sexagesimal. I just said "It's like time. You know how time goes, you get to 59... what's next?
Very natural. Even doing the conversion... because it's just multiplying out the number of seconds.
@futurebird some small piece of the math of ancient Babylon lives on ...
