BREAKING: The USA is switching to METRIC! (piped.video)

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[-] JTPorkins@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You've almost got it right, but in the opposite way. "10" in Babylonian would just be one character. They would have a different character for every number 0-59 and at 60 it would become two characters.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

I think you misunderstood what I was saying. "10" in hexidecimal is 16 in decimal, so I was wondering if "10" in Babylonian was 60 in decimal, and they had 59 digits like (0-9, A-F, G-Z, ???)

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