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Ask [email protected] • 11 months ago

Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?

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Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?

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Ask [email protected] • 11 months ago

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pretty interesting wiki page, is their 60 base math the reason we still have 60 base time?
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  Basically, yes. Time, angles, geographic coordinates.
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    round things! time being a flat circle, obviously. ;)

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