Anonymous ID: a586e8 Oct. 24, 2020, 6:20 a.m. No.11251897   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1928 >>1970

>>11251846

>I always wondered why 60

Sexagesimal started in Sumer 5000 years ago, and we still use it today.

Sumerian and Babylonian mathematics was based on a sexegesimal, or base 60, numeric system, which could be counted physically using the twelve knuckles on one hand the five fingers on the other hand

 

https://www.storyofmathematics.com/sumerian.html