SEXAGENARY, something relating to the number sixty: thus sexagenary or sexagesimal arithmetic, is a method of computation proceeding by fixties. See ARITHMETICK, p. 418.
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SEXAGENARY, something relating to the number sixty: thus sexagenary or sexagesimal arithmetic, is a method of computation proceeding by fixties. See ARITHMETICK, p. 418.