CIVILIZATION
BABYLONIAN
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Question
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fourth written number system
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fifth written number system
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first written number system
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Babylonian number system is old. It started about 1900 BC to 1800 BC but it was developed from a number system belonging to a much older civilisation called the Sumerians. It is quite a complicated system, but it was used by other cultures, such as the Greeks, as it had advantages over their own systems.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Babylonian number system uses base 60 (sexagesimal) instead of 10. Their notation is not terribly hard to decipher, partly because they use a positional notation system, just like we do. To us, the digit 2 can mean 2, 20, 200, or 2/10, and so on, depending on where it appears in a number.
Detailed explanation-3: -Assyro-Chaldean Babylonian cuneiform numerals were written in cuneiform, using a wedge-tipped reed stylus to make a mark on a soft clay tablet which would be exposed in the sun to harden to create a permanent record.
Detailed explanation-4: -Babylonian math has roots in the numeric system started by the Sumerians, a culture that began about 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, or southern Iraq, according to USA Today.
Detailed explanation-5: -This sexagesimal system was used for weights and measures, astronomy, and for the development of mathematical functions. For example, one tablet lists the squares of all of the numbers up to 602, and sexagesimal numbering is used for the numbers greater than 60-64 is written as 60+4, 81 as 60+21…