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On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:40:53 -0400, c186282 wrote:

> On 6/22/25 11:49 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> On 2025-06-22, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 6/22/25 2:14 AM, rbowman wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:24:07 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>      Still wonder about the Babylonian base-60 thing ...
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, every time I have to convert degrees/minutes/seconds into
>>>> something I can work with. The jury is still out if that can be
>>>> blamed on them or not. The French tried to metrify that and more or
>>>> less failed.
>>>
>>>     It WAS a really weird system for sure.
>>>     PROBABLY based on 360 degrees, but we can't be sure. '
>>>
>>>     Odd factoid, the old Greek scientists had to change their crap
>>>     number system to Babylonian, do the calx, then convert back to the
>>>     Greek system.
>>>
>>>     Anyway, 60 different numbers ... likely twice as many symbols as
>>>     needed to write the main lang.
>>>     Wow.
>> 
>> And then there's base-64...
> 
>    Don't see that often ...

It isn't a number system like base 10, but you'll see megabytes of base64 
if you look :) 

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4648