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K writes:
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| ISTR the Phoenicians counted to base 60. I still find that
| mind-boggling, despite having grown up with a monetary system which
| combined base 4, 12 and 20.

Babylonians, actually. They were great astronomers, and that is why
our times and angles are mostly based on subdivisions of 60.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.