sexigesimal

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sexigesimal (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of sexagesimal
    • 1841, Francis Henney Smith, Lecture on the History of Mathematics, Virginia Military Institute:
      The French use the Decimal division, but its general introduction would have rendered useless all the existing tables, which were calculated with much labor to the sexigesimal division.