Celebrating Sixty
    The number Sixty is celebrated in many different cultures. It is mathematically very significant, and systems which are based on Sixty have survived the centuries to come to us intact.
    Sixty is a highly composite number: it is the smallest number with exactly 12 divisors. Sixty's factors of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60 which makes calculating fractions easier. Sixty is the product of three consecutive digits: 3 x 4 x 5.
    It is the smallest number divisib...

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