This sexagesimal system became the standard number system in Sumer and Babylonia.
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Eratosthenes used a simpler sexagesimal system dividing a circle into 60 parts.
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The Mesopotamians also used a sexagesimal system, that is base sixty.
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That gives one likely source of the Babylonian Sexagesimal system ( 12x5 = 60 ).
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The Babylonians did use the sexagesimal system, which was a place-value system.
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His first paper on Babylonian mathematics, in 1927, was an account of the origin of the sexagesimal system.
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:Babylonians popularised the sexagesimal system, and that system is retained because of its historic prevalence . talk ) 03 : 36, 15 December 2014 ( UTC)
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It is alleged that the unit is a result of the sexagesimal system being decimalised, perhaps under the influence of Egypt or Assyria, which both had decimal systems.
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Two different counting systems were in use : a sexagesimal system for animals and humans, for example, and a bisexagesimal system for things like grain, cheese and fresh fish.
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As with the ancient Babylonian sexagesimal system, however, each of the three sexagesimal digits in this number ( 3, 23, and 17 ) is written using the decimal system.
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