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60 has nice properties, in that it is evenly divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30. Helpful as a base since you can divide it into smaller units easily (monetar
by sshumaker 6y ago
60 has nice properties, in that it is evenly divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30. Helpful as a base since you can divide it into smaller units easily (monetary, measurement, etc).
- dragonelite 6y agoFunny i just started reading(half way through, its a hard book to read) Micheal Hudson book "...And forgive them their debts" talks about bronze age economics etc and debt forgiveness and how their number base was usually taken for interests calculations.
- WorldMaker 6y agoThe Babylonian Base-60 also obviously survives in a lot of circle measurements: degrees, minutes:seconds. While the metric system has mostly moved on to radians, metric proponents (and esp. the French Revolution) failed to find a base-10 time system that people could agree on that matches the convenience of Base-60 minutes:seconds.