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left eye Veteran Member • Posts: 3,032
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The Babylonians used base 60,

What do we know about them though. Not much. Hamurabi's code or something.

We have a lot of clay tablets from them and the written language on them is understood.

The base 60 is why we use 60 seconds to a minute, and 60 minutes to an hour.

They must have been really stupid. I mean there's nobody who up'n got sixty fingers or even sixty fingers and toes! Just plain dumb!

Geometry can be drawn (and is the basis of maths).

Equilateral triangles have a 60 degree angle, hence 360 degrees, full circle rather than linear 'fingers' - that fall off cliffs. It does make sense - and also to angles in terms of lens' design.

Not an either or.

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Imperial / inches is also another good system, as it's based on fractions and proportions, like f-stops are, 1/2 1/4 1/8 etc which can be applied to area and objects very well indeed.

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Decimal is ok, but it's not a visual system, and not as powerful as binary.

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