This math scares me

[Fabio Olive Leite]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 03:04:07PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
) 
) One step further is base-60, which is still used for many
) things.  Time and angular measurement for example is partially
) a base-60 system.  I believe that one or more of the ancient
) Aztecs/Incans/Mayans used a base-60 number system.

Indeed, they used it. And some other people too, as is seen even today in
the most common languages of the word. French, for example, has no "real
words" for seventy, eighty and ninety, and uses "sixty ten", "four twenty"
and "four twenty ten".

Base 12 was used a lot for commerce, as it has more integer fractions than
10. :)

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