• DarthCluck@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Being lazy and not going to look it up. I can’t help it to wonder if it’s also based in Sumerian’s base 60

    • monsieur_jean@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      It’s base 20.

      80 in French is 4 x 20. A long time ago, 60 was “trois-vingt”, 3 x 20. We still have a hospital in Paris called “Hopital des Quinze-Vingts”, 15 x 20 because it used to have 300 beds.