Re: sexagesimal

From: Rob Seaman <seaman-at-noao.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:00:14 -0700


> "If we can do this one thing, if we can clean up sexagesimal
> formats, then all the VO money has been well spent!" -- Johannes
> Kepler*
>
> (*) Kepler did not say this

Like I already told Roy, this is clearly a quote from Nebuchadnezzar. Of course, sexagesimal notation was already 1500 years old when ole' Nabu-kudurri-usur the Chaldean reigned from 605-562 BCE during the XI-th Neo-Babylonian Dynasty. (Google? No - why do you ask?) Received on 2006-09-17Z06:00:46