> 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:

> 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.