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>As I'd stated previously, 60 was chosen because it offered a wide variety of commonly-used divisors -- typically 2, 3, 4, and 5. You wouln't want to use a value that was prime, as it offers no useful divisors. Also note that it took a while before it was settled to use decimal notation. There was other really big invention -- the zero. Today it seems silly that such a thing hadn't been arrived at much earlier in history -- but the idea of having a symbol for nothing was something that took philosophers some time to come to grips with (e.g. how could something represent nothing?).
Didn't it all have something to do also with the fact that there appeared to be approximately 360 days in a year? And so then 360 degrees in a circle, which led to latitude and longitude being laid out based on 360 degrees?
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