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OZYMANDIAS
OZYMANDIAS
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And...
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360 degrees....... really?
I have been doing some Geometry recently and it left me wondering why the hell we divide circles into 360 degrees. 360 Seems like such a random arbitrary number to me.
A bit of research (time wasting) later and I am informed we have the Sumerians to thank for this. Apparently the Sumerians liked to work in base 60. Here is the most concise, not necessarily the most accurate, answer I found...
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