>Babylonian accountants and land surveyors did their arithmetic in base 60, presumably because sexagesimal num­bers help with wrangling fractions. I thought th

>Babylonian accountants and land surveyors did their arithmetic in base 60, presumably because sexagesimal num­bers help with wrangling fractions. I thought the agreed theory is its due to Babylonians counting the sections of each finger? The thumb is the pointer and it's used to touch each of the 12 sections five times over one loop per finger (thumb sections are not included). It's also why clocks and time are base 12.