>From: Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
>Subject: Re: ConNumbers
>Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 21:07:16 -0500
>
>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.
>
And why circles have 360 degrees and other such oddities.
Wasn't Gaulish (and other Celtlangs) supposed to be base 20?
Adam Walker
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