References
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Twelve: can't keep a good number down
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Units in trigonometry: radians, degrees& grads:
http://www.math.com/tables/algebra/functions/trig/units.htm
Dr Math talks about the number of units in a circle mentioning the Babylonians base sixty system:
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/problems/perkey7.1.98.html
An extremely in-depth exposé of the leap second by the U.S. navy
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leapsec.html
and their alert that summarizes the effects
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/leap.html
Bases
An Flash game for kids for using powers of ten to build numbers:
http://www.learningbox.com/Base10/BaseTen.html
Kenny Felder's
Base 8, and other math for people who are missing fingers
this is a great single page exploration of bases
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/kenny/papers/bases.html
Unsorted
List of small primes:
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/lists/small/
The Case Against Decimalisation (A. C. Aitken) Very similar message to this site's
http://www.dozenalsociety.org.uk/pdfs/aitken.pdf