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[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

And it remains a sensible system that we rejected because of the 'superiority' of the Decimal system.

The Mesopotamian System can reasonably be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, and 60. All without fractions!

Even the much-vaunted Greeks of antiquity lifted wholesale from the peoples of the fertile crescent- it's why we still use 360 degrees to measure circles.