Babylonian Numbers Converter

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Choose whether to convert a modern decimal number into Babylonian cuneiform, or to decode a Babylonian ASCII string back to decimal.
Enter any positive whole number up to 21,599,999 (the largest representable in four sexagesimal places).
Babylonian cuneiform
๐’• ๐’• ๐’•

Unicode cuneiform symbols (๐’Œ‹ = 10, ๐’• = 1) with space separating each base-60 group

ASCII notation| | |
Base-60 groups1, 1, 1
Decimal value3,661
Place-value groups3
Base-60 place groups3
Decimal value3,661

3,661 in Babylonian: ๐’• ๐’• ๐’•

  • 3,661 occupies 3 base-60 places: 1 in the 3,600s, 1 in the sixties (60s), 1 in the units (1s).
  • The Babylonians wrote each group of digits side by side, reading from left (most significant) to right (least significant), just like modern positional notation.
  • Base 60 was chosen because 60 has many divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60), making it easy to work with fractions - a major advantage for trade and astronomy.

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