Fact Check - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Fact Check
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Socrates’s number—and it is about half the precession of the equinoxes—is 12,960,000. This represents 36,002 (360 days times 60 times 60) and also the product of 4,800 times 2,700, that is, 32 x 23 x 2 x 3.
Can you help us to explain/check the math here? Perhaps superscript formatting is missing (this does not seem likely though; 3 to the second power times 2 to the third power times 2 times 3 is only 432). 32 x 23 x 2 x 3 is 4,416, which seems unrelated to this paragraph.
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