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Degrees in a Circle (why 360?)

According to Reading the Numbers, by Mary Blocksma:

The same people who invented the wheel five or six thousand years ago (the Mesopotamians) also fancied the number sixty, basing their entire number system on it. No one seems to know exactly why--it might even have been related to trade: ... [More]

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