Thought of this in the shower this morning, if anyone has an answer I’d be very interested!

    • Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.net
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      1 year ago

      Fun fact: base 60 was adopted by the Babylonians for two major reasons:

      • It splits evenly in common fractions, such as halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths…
      • The Babylonians used a finger-counting method where the left thumb scrolled across each phalanx of the finger (giving a core base 12) and each of the other left fingers was used to keep track of how many rounds of twelve had been counted (hence 12 times 5 = 60)