Project GutenbergThe ancient reason there are 60 minutes in an hour
A mysterious 5,000-year-old decision led directly to how we still count time today.
By Jocelyn Timperley
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Space@gutenberg_org I read that the reason was that 60 had many more integer divisors than did 10. 1,2,3,4,5,6 for a start.
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My thinking too, while that observation is on point, if there's no historical record, it's no proof that was the reason, but to me it sounds better than counting the joints on your hand that has a sort of implicit assumption that those guys were simple, while in fact they had advanced mathematics.