Why do we use base 60 for time and base 10 for everything else. Why has no one decided to integrate it. - eviltoast

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

  • Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.net
    5·
    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)