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Ancient Sumerians and Babylonians used base-60. If we were all polydactyl it would be easier to use base-6.

• mcphage 3y ago
  They also didn’t have a decimal point, so you got to play the fun game of “is 1,15 equal to 75 or 1.25 here?”
• xigoi 3y ago
  > If we were all polydactyl it would be easier to use base-6. Why? Five fingers are the perfect amount for base six, which has digits from zero to five.