• Nougat@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    “Having many more right triangles for a unit length” would have an incredible benefit in constructing enormous triangly things.

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      1 year ago

      Instead becoming more acute about triangly things… we were more obtuse and went base ten

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        1 year ago

        Well yeah, who’s got 60 fingers? I mean sure, there’s Fingers Georg, but that guy’s weird.

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      1 year ago

      Now I’m wondering why the Babylonians didn’t have giant triangle shaped orbital habitats.