Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
SEXAGESIMALS
Noun
sexagesimals
plural of sexagesimal
Source: Wiktionary
SEXAGESIMAL
Sex`a*ges"i*mal, a. Etym: [Cf. F. sexagésimal.]
Definition: Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty. Sexagesimal fractions or numbers (Arith. & Alg.), those fractions whose denominators are some power of sixty; as, astronomical fractions, because formerly there were no others used in astronomical calculations.
– Sexagesimal, or Sexagenary, arithmetic, the method of computing by the sexagenary scale, or by sixties.
– Sexagesimal scale (Math.), the sexagenary scale.
Sex`a*ges"i*mal, n.
Definition: A sexagesimal fraction.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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