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>India did also have a (presumably) Babylonian-inspired sexagesimal system as well, as seen for example in the pre-decimalized currency. The pre-decimalized cu

• gumby 9y ago
  Thanks, I was born after the conversion and should have checked. Sadly I can't edit my comment. I remember being told it was base 60, which fit comfortably with the pounds/shilling system I did have as a kid -- but had I been a 7-year-old programmer like all the kids are these days I probably would have been super excited by 64.
  • eadmund 9y ago
    > I remember being told it was base 60, which fit comfortably with the pounds/shilling system I did have as a kid ??? Pounds-shillings-pence weren't base 60: there were 20 shillings in a pound & 12 pennies in a shilling. That did happen to work out to 240 pence to the pound, which happens to be 4 × 60, but it wasn't a base-60 system.
    • gumby 9y ago
      A crown was five shillings and was about the largest coin I was going to get my hands on :-)