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Who invented the base 60 number system?
The Babylonians
What was the number base for the earliest number system?
Probably it was the ancient Babylonians whose number base was 60 or maybe the ancient Mayans whose number base was 20
What number did the Babylonians base their counting methods?
The Babylonians used 60 as the base for their counting.
What is 23 plus 35?
What is the base of your number system? The answer is: 58 in base 10 and base 16 60 in base 8
Why are there ten numbers in the base ten number system?
Simple answer? Because you have ten fingers, it was the easiest to count & the ancients ran with it. There have been other base number systems, for example Sumerians & Babylonians had base 60 (that's why there are 60 minutes, 60 seconds etc).
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