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Positional notation with no zero is awkward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal#Babylonian_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal#Babylon
by card_zero 1mo ago
Positional notation with no zero is awkward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal#Babylonian_mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal#Babylonian_mathema...
"For example, the symbols for 1 and 60 are identical."