For counting, just as any other number system.
Babylonian used the sexadecimal system which has 60 as the base number but they also wrote the number in the cuneiform writing system wich I posted it in the related links below.
I posted the information in the related links box below. Babylonian used cuneifor writting so that you have to see.
Babylonian number system is base on 60 and the cuneiform written system made harder to express math than the system we now use. In the related links box below I posted a site so you could see this.
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Babylonian numerals were written in cuneiform, using a wedge-tipped reed ... used a sexagesimal (base-60) positional numeral system inherited from the ... The Babylonians did not technically have a digit for, nor a concept of, the number.
This base 60 number system was used in 1800b.c
The Babylonians used a base 60 system.
Babylonian used the sexadecimal system which has 60 as the base number but they also wrote the number in the cuneiform writing system wich I posted it in the related links below.
I posted the information in the related links box below. Babylonian used cuneifor writting so that you have to see.
The number system they used back them is the sexagesimal system. Our system has 10 digits from 0 to 9. So they used a system with 60 digits. That's why it is called a sexagesimal system. So make that a 60 for the Babylonian number.
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Because it is based on the Babylonian number system, which used 6 extensively.
They the Sexagesimal number system. It means that it has a numeral system with sixty as its base. We used the decimal system with ten as its base. The system was convenient back then but I would not change our decimal system for the sexagesimal.
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Hindu-Arabic is our current number system while Babylonian numbers are an ancient number system which uses base 60 and uses only two symbols.
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