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Why a minute have sixty seconds?

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∙ 9y ago
Updated: 11/10/2020

The Sumerians' used sexagesimal (base 60) mathematics . This was because 60 is evenly divisible by the first few integers as well as a few others - unlike 10 which is divisible only by 1, 2, 5 and 10. The Babylonians adopted the Sumerian counting system and used that for their measurement of time.

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