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Re:All clocks are 30 seconds late by BlueTemplar on Monday January 06, 2025 @02:11PM (#42614214)
Romans were using both : "metric/decimal" for numbers, but "imperial/dozenal" for fractions :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_abacus

(Base 12x5=60 was of course used by their Babylonian predecessors.)

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