Re: ConNumbers
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 9, 1999, 2:07 |
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Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> If I recall rightly, the Babylonians have been the first attested culture
> with a base-12 system, of which traces abound in lots of languages.
Are you sure? I know their main system was based on 60, which
is why time is measured the way it is today. I suppose other systems
could have existed alongside, though.
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