Saturday, September 26, 2020

Re:Create your own Babylonian-style base 60 multiplication table for the number forty-five

knowing the example 2   22,30 with base 60, I then worked backward. setting the column 1 number first and I can then find combinations numbers for column 2. 

For example, I picked 4 as my column 1 number, so I know that column 2 must be (a+b/60)=45/4, since it's a base 60 question, it will be easier to change the base 45 to 60 which gives us 45/4=675/60. Simplify 675/60, gives us (11+15/60), therefore we have the answer of [4.  11 15]. Please see the below answer by using the same method. 








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