Define these Levels of Measurement.NominalOrdinalInterval/Ratio
Measurement is the measure of something or someone.
metric system
what is the system of measurement adoptd by the philippines
The Sumerian system was based on a root of six. It is believed that the Sumerian civilization is the most ancient and their system of counting the very first. The Sumerian system can still be seen in our use of the foot (12 inches = 2 x 6) and yard (36 inches = 6 x 6) and in our sexagesimal measurement of time (60 seconds, 60 minuets, 24 hours = 4 x 6).
The sexagesimal system (base 60).
European measurement system
its so hard to define....
It is a system of counting in 60s. Very common in Babylonian times, it survives in our current measurement of time and of angles. An hour or degree are divided into 60 minutes and each of these is divided into 60 seconds.
They the Sexagesimal number system. It means that it has a numeral system with sixty as its base. We used the decimal system with ten as its base. The system was convenient back then but I would not change our decimal system for the sexagesimal.
The Babylonians used a sexagesimal system. We use a decimal system. That means ours has 10 digits from 0 to 9 and the Babylonians had 60 digits in their sexagesimal system.
60 (sexagesimal)
Define these Levels of Measurement.NominalOrdinalInterval/Ratio
The number system they used back them is the sexagesimal system. Our system has 10 digits from 0 to 9. So they used a system with 60 digits. That's why it is called a sexagesimal system. So make that a 60 for the Babylonian number.
The system of measurement based on referents in nature and not human body parts is the metric system. This system uses universal constants such as the speed of light or the mass of an atom to define units of measurement like the meter or the kilogram.
Measurement is the measure of something or someone.
The base-sixty (sexagesimal) system was first used by the Sumerians sometime around 2000 BCE.