Mayan Mathematics

The minute that I was having a child coming into this world the way my brain was working had to change. I was now ready to research and except my rich culture and history. I read tons of books and watched plenty of docu.s on subjects like african slaves, the history of my Mayan & Taino history. And the amazing things I was to find I will use to teach my daughter of the rich and beautiful blood flowing through her veins. And since those days I've distanced myself of partaking in Thanksgiving and at a point down right got angry when someone would say HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
As the years went on I started to realize that the second to last Thursday of November has come to be a short time in our family's history where we can all come together and hang out. I get to see my uncle's who've come from places like Brazil, Australia, Germany and Canada. I made a point to start getting ready to show my daughter that this day can be used to research and talk about her "Indian/native" side. In the same light my man was trying to take back "porch monkey" in Clerks 2.

I'm taking back Thanksgiving.


In common with the other Mesoamerican civilizations, the Maya used a base 20 (vigesimal) and base 5 numbering system (see Maya numerals). Also, the preclassic Maya and their neighbors independently developed the concept of zero by 36 BC. Inscriptions show them on occasion working with sums up to the hundreds of millions and dates so large it would take several lines just to represent it. They produced extremely accurate astronomical observations; their charts of the movements of the moon and planets are equal or superior to those of any other civilization working from naked eye observation.

Also in common with the other Mesoamerican civilizations, the Maya utilized a highly accurate measure of the length of the solar year, far more accurate than that used in Europe as the basis of the Gregorian Calendar. They did not use this figure for the length of year in their calendar, however. Instead, the Maya calendar(s) were based on a year length of exactly 365 days, which means that the calendar falls out of step with the seasons by one day every four years. By comparison, the Julian calendar, used in Europe from Roman times until about the 16th Century, accumulated an error of one day every 128 years. The modern Gregorian calendar accumulates a day's error in approximately 3257 years.