How did the Babylonians represent numbers?
The Babylonian number system uses base 60 (sexagesimal) instead of 10. … 25 means “two tens, five ones.” 52 has the same symbols, but it means “five tens, two ones.” Similarly, 1,3 in sexagesimal means “one sixty, 3 ones,” or 63, and 3,57 means “three sixties, fifty-seven ones,” or 237. Why did the Babylonians use…