I find it fascinating that we have names for base 60 and base 12. They seem very similar to ordinals and partitive numerals in Spanish. Those words are being q

I find it fascinating that we have names for base 60 and base 12. They seem very similar to ordinals and partitive numerals in Spanish. Those words are being quickly forgotten except low values and powers of ten. But they were common knowledge years ago, I guess it was the same for other romance languages. Sexagésimo/a is 60th or 1/60. So sexagesimal is very natural.