Mayan Numbers and Calendar of Mayan Culture

Maya's digital expression is similar to the calculation of beads by abacus. Any number can be represented by three symbols: a point, a horizontal line and a shell symbol representing zero. A similar principle applies to the "binary" of today's computers.

Mayan calendar is very complicated, including Jin Zhuo calendar with a period of 260 days, lunar calendar with a period of 6 months, lunar calendars with a period of 29 and 30 days, and solar calendar with a period of 365 days. Modern astronomical observation is 365.2422 days a year, while Maya measured 365.2420 days a year.

The Mayans worked out the famous Venus formula:

(Moon) 20x13 = 260 260x2x73 = 37,960

(Sun) 8x13 =104104x5x73 = 37960

(Venus) 5x13 = 65 65x8x73 = 37,960

After 37,960 days, each cycle will meet in a straight line. According to Mayan myths and legends, at that time, the "gods" would go to a quiet place to rest. Venus calendar year refers to the time required for Venus to orbit the sun once a week. The Mayans spent 384 years observing astronomy and calculated that the calendar year of Venus was 584 days (it was found that Venus only rotated five times in eight earth years and repeated it). Divide the number of days in 8 earth years by 5-2920 days-584 days), and the modern observation calculation is 583.92 days, with an error of less than 12 seconds per day and only 6 minutes per month. It is unbelievable to calculate the Venus calendar with such high accuracy.

The Mayans calculated the unit of the sun is huge, and the number known to archaeologists is:

20 gold (day) = 1 una (month) /20 days.

18 Una = 1 guilders (year) /360 days

20 guilders = 1 card guilders /7200 days.

20 card shield = 1 Burke shield/144000 days.

20 Berk Dune = 1 Pique Dune /2880000 days

20 Peak Dune = 1 Kara Dune/57.6 million days

20 karadun = 1 kinchington/1 15200000 days.

20 golden shield = 1 atto shield /23040000000 days.

Why has such a huge number been developed? Digital units are so big that even modern people don't need them. From today's scientific point of view, such a huge number can only be used by astronomy. Astronomy often uses a huge number unit-"astronomical number" to express the distance between galaxies.