This is the difference between philosophy and number systems. The Babylonian number system was, by far, the superior system to the Greek number system (which th

This is the difference between philosophy and number systems. The Babylonian number system was, by far, the superior system to the Greek number system (which they inherited from the Egyptians.) This is something even the Greeks acknowledged because they would use the Babylonian system to do their own calculations, and then convert it back into the Greek numbers (similar to how the USA scientists use the metric system and then convert back to the imperial system today).