Why the 4,000-Year-Old Babylonian Math Base 60 System Is Still Used
Why the 4,000-Year-Old Babylonian Math Base 60 System Is Still Used
May 13, 2025
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About 5,000 years ago, Mesopotamian (Sumerian-Babylonian) scribes developed base-60 math. Centuries later, Greek and Islamic astronomers used it to fix the 60-minute hour and 60-second minute. Sixty’s many divisors (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30) made fractions easy—why modern clocks still run on it. | TerrifyingMyths
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