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That same astronomical thinking led them to patch the ancient Babylonian method of counting by 60, the sexagesimal system, onto the hour.

For one thing the system is sexagesimal—based on the number 60.

What does factoradic do that you can’t get with binary, decimal, sexagesimal, or any of the other infinitely many other number bases you could choose instead?

The ancient Babylonians used a sexagesimal, or base 60, system.

Specifically, I was irritated at the strange remarks one of the researchers made about the relative utility of base 60, or sexagesimal, versus the base 10, or decimal, system we use today.