There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
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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