Maybe that is where we get 360 degrees......................with 60 as their base...........and a radius being approx. 1/6 of the full circle...........along its circumference...................they might have just approx. it...........with each one forming a 60 degree angle...............................it would take 6 of those...........6 * 60 = 360..............................................

  

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The Babylonians, who were famous for their astronomical observations and calculations (aided by their invention of the abacus), used a sexagesimal (base-60) positional numeral system inherited from either the Sumerian or the Eblaite civilizations.

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The Babylonians, who were famous for their astronomical observations and calculations (aided by their invention of the abacus), used a sexagesimal (base-60) positional numeral system inherited from either the Sumerian or the Eblaite civilizations.

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From the number systems of these earlier peoples came the base of 60, that is the sexagesimal system. Yet neither the Sumerian nor the Akkadian system was a positional system and this advance by the Babylonians was undoubtedly their greatest achievement in terms of developing the number system.