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Originally Posted by truthsearcher
They had a very different for of math than us.They used a sexigeismal system (based on the number 6).
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Sexagesimal is base 60, and is used in modern times for geometry and time keeping.
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The sumerians also had knowledge of our solar system, the sun in the middle, planets rotating in the proper order, only an extra one.
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From where did they get this knowledge, I wonder?
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