Looking at the date, I think most of these answers were just the C's trying to hook Laura and Ark up.
You make a good point. However, I think the C's answer to study mathematics may go much deeper here than that.
You will note that Laura's original question was about the Sumerians who used a sexagesimal number system based on 60 rather than the decimal or 10-based counting system we use today. You will also observe that when the C's responded by saying "Study mathematics for all possible unanswered pieces of the puzzle!!!" they used three exclamation marks when suggesting that mathematics underpinned the answers to all the pieces of the Sumerian puzzle.
It may seem rather odd at first sight that the C's should be proposing to Laura that she should study mathematics to uncover who the Sumerians were. We need though to take into account that Laura had been referring to the work of researcher Alexander Sitchin who had claimed to have deciphered the ancient Sumerian texts concerning the Anunnaki, the gods or lords of the Sumerians, who he believed came from a planet called Nibiru that had a 3600 years orbit. The C's were not as impressed by Sitchin's arguments as Laura may have been up to that time and confirmed that Nibiru was in fact a cometary cluster that had a 3,600 year periodic orbit. Laura subsequently alluded to the Anunnaki gods as the founders of Sumerian civilisation in this later extract from the transcripts:
Q: Well, I don't think I am going to get any more on it. Now, next question: in playing with my 11 house zodiac, it became apparent that, in order for it to work properly, the circle must be converted from 360 degrees to 330 degrees. Now, this made me think about the degrees in a circle. With a 360 degree circle, the total as well as all the cardinal points are numbers that total 9. Frank and I have examined this idea of numbers having some sort of 'frequency' effect on all things, and it seems to be true in a VERY deep sense. So, all our measurements on our globe are based on the number 9, and this is NOT a friendly number! The ancient gods were known as 'they who measure,' and this imposition of a 360 degree circle on our world, and a 12 sign zodiac, is part of a system that imposes a frequency or vibration on our reality that is quite destructive. It perpetuates the negative existence. Am I getting close to the proper understanding here?
A: The proper understanding is more important than how it was reached.
Q: So, it is the conclusion. But, the deeper I go, the more I see that this world is REALLY controlled by these negative beings! They really have us under their thumbs.
A: Do they?? If so, then how is it that you can communicate with us?
Sitchin had this to say about the imposition of the Sexagesimal Number System
“The number 3600 was written in Sumerian as a large circle. The epithet for the planet also meant ‘a perfect circle’ or ‘a completed cycle’. It also meant the number 3600.”
Zecharia Sitchin,
The 12th Planet
The Sexagesimal system, also known as base 60 or sexagenary, is a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with
the ancient Sumerians in the
3rd millennium BC, was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and is still used — in a modified form — for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates.
The sexagesimal system used powers of 60 much as the decimal system today uses powers of 10. Rudiments of this ancient system survive in vestigial form in our division of the hour into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds and when measuring angles and geographic coordinates based on the division of a circle into 360 degrees.
But why choose the number 60 as your base? Well the number 60, a superior
highly composite number, has twelve factors, namely 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60, of which
2, 3, and 5 are prime numbers. With so many factors, many fractions involving sexagesimal numbers are simplified. For example, one hour can be divided evenly into sections of 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 15 minutes, 12 minutes, 10 minutes, 6 minutes, 5 minutes, 4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes, and 1 minute. 60 is the smallest number that is divisible by every number from 1 to 6; that is, it is the lowest common multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Hence, 60 is a very useful number to use in measurements where fractions are concerned.
The base 60 system had decided advantages for Sumerian merchants and buyers in making everyday financial transactions easier when they involved bargaining for and dividing up larger quantities of goods. In the late 3rd millennium BC, Sumerian/Akkadian units of weight included the
kakkaru (
talent, approximately 30 kg) divided into 60
manû (
mina), which was further subdivided into 60
šiqlu (
shekel); the descendants of these units persisted for millennia.
For more on this see:
The Joy of Sexagesimal Floating-Point Arithmetic
As human beings we naturally have 10 fingers and ten toes. Thus, when using our fingers to count, a ten based counting system would be more natural for us. However, it is known that the Anunnaki and Nephilim had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. Interestingly, stone statues of what are likely to have been Anunnaki or Nephilim figures found at both Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe in Turkey have six fingers on their hands:
Statue discovered at Karahan Tepe
Hence, a 6 or 12 based counting system, as fractions of 60, would no doubt have been natural for them when using their hands.
It is also likely that the Earth's orbit may have been 360 days once rather than the 365.25 days it is today (as a result of Venus displacing Earth from its previous orbit). Again, this might explain why the Sumerians, an Atlantean legacy civilisation, may have used 360 degrees for the division of a circle.
Is it possible the Atlanteans used the Sexagesimal system and the Mesopotamians inherited it? Further intriguing possibilities arise where ancient trigonometry is concerned after a Babylonian clay tablet labelled
Plimpton 322 was discovered containing an example of Babylonian mathematics. This tablet, believed to have been written around 1800 BC, has a table of four columns and 15 rows of numbers in the
cuneiform script of the period.
This tablet lists two of the three numbers in what are now called
Pythagorean triples, i.e., integers a, b, and c satisfying
a2 +
b2 =
c2. From a modern perspective, a method for constructing such triples is a significant early achievement, known long before Greek and Indian mathematicians discovered solutions to this problem. This indicates that the Greek philosopher Pythagoras's famous right angled theorem was known to the Sumerians long before he discovered it, if indeed he did discover it, for it is known that he travelled widely in the ancient world to acquire his profound knowledge and Babylon was in his time a great centre of learning.
Eleanor Robson, a British
Assyriologist mathematician and academic, who is the author or co-author of several books on
Mesopotamian culture and the
history of mathematics, has argued that it is
"unlikely that the author of Plimpton 322 was either a professional or amateur mathematician. More likely he seems to have been a teacher and Plimpton 322 a set of exercises." Robson takes an approach that in modern terms would be characterized as
algebraic, though she describes it in concrete
geometric terms and argues that the Babylonians would also have interpreted this approach geometrically.
This suggests that the Babylonians may have approached such issues geometrically rather than using algebra as we do today. If this is correct, what does this say about Atlantean mathematical approaches to hyperdimensional physics and is there a possible relationship to pranalytical mathematics?
We know from the C's that geometry plays an important part in the Unified Field Theory:
Q: (A) Now, this business about Sakharov, is this related, or better, when I think about Sakharov, I think about his theory that space, time metric can change signature; that space/time geometry builds a kind of singularity, changes the algebraic structure of the metric tensor; and I was trying to relate it to changing of density at some point...
A: Yes. Sakharov knew the answer was in the pentagon.
[...]
Q: (L) Well... (A) What was this answer 'yes' to the changing of density and how it relates to what Sakharov was working on and how it connects to Kaluza Klein theories?
A: Both.
Q: (L) Well, I guess we are going to have to wait until I type it to make any sense out of it...
A: Geometry... pentagon and hexagon, algebraic equations...
Q: (A) Pentagon and hexagon algebraic equations... (L) What is the connection between the pentagon and hexagon?
A: Discover.
Later the C's added:
Q: (A) Okay, I will do my homework. Now, pentagon. There was this pentagon we talked about last time. Pentagon and then hexagon. My guess is that the pentagon is related to the wave equation in 5 dimensions. I want to ask about this...
A: If one seeks to unify, one needs a common source. If "time" really were the 4th dimension, what if it sprang from, or was born of a fifth. Now, how or where does one "plug" gravity into the equation?
Q: (A) Normally gravity is plugged into the equation as part of the geometry of space and time, except if Newton and Galilei, who consider time as different...
A: Ah, now enter those sneaky pentagons and hexagons.
We should recall that it was Plato who supposedly provided the world with what today are known as the Five Platonic Solids. However, the C's have also recently confirmed that he was a major plagiarist. So how much of this Pythagorean and Platonic learning was originally Sumerian and how much of it was down to the Anunnaki? Were the Anunnaki and their retained Atlantean mathematical knowledge one "piece of the puzzle"?
However, the Anunnaki are also connected to the Lizard beings who are often depicted in Sumerian art as winged beings. They may also have been the means by which the early Sumerians gained their mathematical knowledge according to the C's:
A: If you were living in the desert, or jungle, about 7,000 years ago, as you measure time, would you not be impressed if these Reptoid "dudes" came down from the heavens in silvery objects and demonstrated techno-wonders from thousands of years in the future, and taught you calculus, geometry and astrophysics to boot?!?
Q: Is that, in fact, what happened?
A: Yup.
Where the C's talk of "Reptoid dudes" appearing to people in the desert, this may well be a reference to the
Ubaid period (c. 5500–3700 BC) a prehistoric period in
Mesopotamia in what is today Iraq. The Ubaid period is distinguished by its art and pottery including distinctive Ubaid figurines such as the one shown below, which clearly depicts a lizard looking female carrying a child. Known as "Ophidian figures", they have been exclusively found at various southern Mesopotamian sites. They are characterised by a slender body, long, reptilian head with incised eyes and mouth and a three-dimensional small nose. Some of these figures have been dated back to circa 5,200 BC putting them within the time period the C's mentioned as when human contact with the reptoids took place.
So, were the reptoid beings responsible for the Sumerians' mathematical knowledge, including the Sexagesimal system, which was passed on to the Babylonians and through them to the Greeks?