Nick Maclaren writes

In article ,
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.

I'm sure you're right. This is a distant memory from school history
lessons, when I was much more interested in spotting relics of base 60
in our number systems than in remembering unfamiliar names of places
'somewhere near the med' ;-)
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Kay