sexagesimal

[Rob Seaman]

> "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?)
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