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The main reason is that 60 is divisible by many smaller numbers, for example, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10. Consequently, calculating a quarter or a third is easy. By contrast, our decimal system is based on a number (10) whose only proper factors are 2 and 5.

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