While we do not use the original Babylonian calendar today, our division of the day into 24 hours, or 24 x 60 = 1440 minutes, and 24 x 60 x 60 = 86,400 seconds, comes from Babylonia. The Babylonians employed a positional notation that is similar to the modern decimal system, but their notation was sexagesimal ie based on powers of 60 instead of 10. Remnants of this system are still in use to this day: the circle is divided into 360 degrees, a degree into 60 minutes, and a minute into 60 seconds.
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