It is odd to contemplate the daily juxtaposition of Base Ten and Base Sixty numbering. We count time in decades, but we have a dozen months. We buy a dozen eggs. We have sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day. Yet there is no widespread discussing about “metric-alizing” our time.
I looked up the Babylonian numbering system. If you look at the actual symbols, it looks to me like Base Ten. Of course, math has never been my strong suit.
It is odd to contemplate what a strange thing it is that it took so long to invent zero. As I have said often though, it hard enough to see what is THERE, but even harder to see what is not there. Zero symbolizes what is missing. This is something. That is why we have a symbol for it.