[LMB] OT: Women and education
Matija Grabnar
lmb at matija.com
Sun Sep 19 09:09:44 BST 2021
On 19/09/2021 04:45, Matthew George wrote:
> I also recall reading that. Although IIRC, boys and girls received very
> different kinds of education, and neither received knowledge that we take
> for granted - the Aztec number system was reserved to the priesthood and
> was base 60 -
No, it was the Babylonians that had a base 60 numbers system, Aztecs was
based 20, like the Japanese before they took base 10 from the Chinese.
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