Mayan Mathematics (ancient, Europeans, years, civilizations)

[Motion]

Anyone familiar with Mayan mathematics? It seemed to have been fairly advanced for its time.

Mayan Math

[Motion]

The Aztecs were also math whizzes.

Aztecs were whizzes at math - LiveScience- msnbc.com

[harry chickpea]

As were the Babylonians

[MICoastieMom]

And if they are all right, I only have three years to get all my unfinished quilt projects done!

[Motion]

I kinda got interested in the Mayans and Aztecs after seeing documentries on their civilizations and engineering. It touched on how the Mayan's use of math was more advanced than that of Europe at that time and how they discovered the use of zero before others did. The Hindus discovered zero about 300 years after the Mayans then Europeans learned it from them. I think many would be surprised to learn that the Mayans and Aztecs were as advanced with math and engineering like they were.

[Motion]

Originally Posted by harry chickpea

As were the Babylonians

Yeah I've been reading up on them some. I like reading about how different ancient peoples used math. It kinda makes math more interesting to me.

[Thyra]

Originally Posted by MICoastieMom

And if they are all right, I only have three years to get all my unfinished quilt projects done!

Ah.. and how many UFO's do you have??? I gave most of mine and tons of fabric to "Quilts of Valor"...but I saved a few.. just in case I got in the quilting mood again
Sorry to go off-topic

[jtur88]

The Wiki article on Mayan Numerals Maya numerals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has a panel in the right margin linking to 28 different numering systems used by ancient peoples.

[Dr. Foosball]

Didn't they work on a base 12 system or something like that?

[Motion]

^
Base 20