[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Time

Toby Smithe toby.smithe at gmail.com
Sun Sep 10 12:59:15 BST 2006


On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 12:44 +0100, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 10:40 +0100, Dan Bishop wrote:
> > Divide your 12 sweets between 5 people...
> The Babylonians used a number system with a base of sixty.  This is
> because you can divide it by 1,2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20 and 30.  60 is the
> smallest number with 12 divisors.

Yet that doesn't explain why they needed 12 divisors...
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