I didn’t know sexagesimal was a word until today. Indeed, I think that most spell checkers will flag it as a misspelling. Yet it is real. And you can probably guess what it means: base-60 numeric.
It didn’t occur to me that anyone would formalize it as a number system, but apparently it did to the Babylonians and Sumerians.
Apparently it’s common in astronomy.
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