When humans later adopted the decimal (base-10) number system based on having 10 fingers, they were dissatisfied with the Babylonian sexagesimal division of space and time, so they changed angle measurement using pi, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, which is constant regardless of circle size.
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“When humans later discovered that they had 10 fingers and began using the decimal number system, they were not very amused by the fact that the Babylonians divided spacetime by 60...If we divide the length of the circumference C by the length of the diameter D...we get a number that always remains the same no matter how large or small we make the circle. Today, we know this number as pi.”
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:18:22 PM
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