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Thursday, November 15, 2018
Base 60 (sexagesimal) - Numberphile
Why do we have 60 seconds to a minute and 60 minutes to an hour?
Why do we have 360° in a circle? Finding this out was awesome. Of course, I thought!
And why do we use base 10? Because it's easy, I thought. Nope, it's more obvious than that.
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