Why do we hit a limit of 60 for seconds and minutes, but then decimal for hours and miliseconds?
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Our time system originated in Summeria and was spread from there to basically every other civilization. Summeria used a base-12 number system (single digits went 0-11 for 12 total single digit numbers). 60 is much less an oddball in base 12 math. Their number system never caught on, but their time system did.
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