This number, 2 × 12, or 24, was derived in Babylonia from the Sumerian sexagesimal method of reckoning, based on gradations of 60 (5 × 12 = 60) rather than on multiples of 10.
This number, 2 × 12, or 24, was derived in Babylonia from the Sumerian sexagesimal method of reckoning, based on gradations of 60 (5 × 12 = 60) rather than on multiples of 10.
This paper focuses on landscape and place vocabulary in the Tzeltal municipio of Tenejapa, where speakers use an absolute system of spatial reckoning based on the overall uphill (southward)/downhill (northward) slope of the land.
Blaupunkt's Travelpilot holds both highway and detailed street maps on a special compact disk, keeps track of your location by dead reckoning based on sensors in the car and displays the car's position on a scrolling map display.
This is an interesting if not terribly original idea, but "The Reckoning," based on the meaty and readable novel "Morality Play" by Barry Unsworth, turns it into an occasion for speechifying and self-important acting.
The Parthians, following the Seleucids, sought to institute their own system of reckoning based on some event in their past that scholars can only surmise possibly the assumption of the title of king by the first ruler of the Parthians, Arsaces.
Twenty-two yeafterfthe the SSC cancellation, three scholars have provided a more complete reckoning based on ample documentation, exhaustive research, and incisive analysis.
A dead reckoning technique (a method of determining position by making an educated guess based on last known position, speed, time and direction), using a gyroscope and an accelerometer is applied to enhance the reliability of IVNS.
Zynga is reckoned to be worth between $4bn and $5bn, based on the value of investment stakes that have been taken in it.
The leverage becomes "astronomical", the firm reckons, when the CDOs are based on other CDOs.The second concern is the possible need to pay out on CDSs if a wave of defaults were to hit.
He reckons many illicit innovations are based on compounds discarded by the developers of legitimate drugs, which might help to explain why they are so numerous compared with the legally sanctioned type.
