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The Babylonian Base-60 also obviously survives in a lot of circle measurements: degrees, minutes:seconds. While the metric system has mostly moved on to radians, metric proponents (and esp. the French Revolution) failed to find a base-10 time system that people could agree on that matches the convenience of Base-60 minutes:seconds.



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