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> the meter was defined four millennia after the pyramid was built. Not only this, but also the sexagesimal degree divided into minutes, as a unit for angle me
by adrian_b 7mo ago
> the meter was defined four millennia after the pyramid was built.
Not only this, but also the sexagesimal degree divided into minutes, as a unit for angle measurement, was defined a couple of millennia later after the pyramid was built.
Decimal fractions of sexagesimal degrees were not used before the last few centuries.