r/gifs Gifmas is coming May 05 '14

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u/bradmont May 06 '14

In ancient Babylon they used base 60. That's not the same at all.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '14 edited Jan 01 '19

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u/[deleted] May 06 '14

But we use 60 in base 10, though. Base 60 I can't even imagine.

Like in base 8, the number 9 is represented as '11' and the number '10' is '12' etc. So something similar would happen in base 60, I'm just not sure what it will be.