The Babylonians used a sexagesimal system. We use a decimal
system. That means ours has 10 digits from 0 to 9 and the
Babylonians had 60 digits in their sexagesimal system.
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Sexagesimal degrees (cardinal directions)
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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.