Talk:Sextant/@comment-24718884-20150707173857/@comment-3157150-20150707195431

@Denischemyavsky101: Please consider looking around before bothering with immature assumptions.

Quoted from Wikipedia's entry on Sextants: The frame of the sextant is in the shape of a sector which is approximately 1⁄6 of a circle (60°), hence its name (sextāns, -antis is the Latin word for "one sixth").