Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time
TTBOOK Presents: Deep Time
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The History of Time
The Babylonians already had a sophisticated numerical system. Base 60, a sex-adjustable system, is a really good system for manipulating numbers. And so that system which they used elsewhere in the kind of what we might now call scientific and administrative systems could then be applied to time - and it's stuck.
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