How did sexagesimal get it?
Hexadecimal originated in Babylon, but there are different opinions about why Babylonians used hexadecimal. Some people think that the Babylonians originally thought that a year was 360 days, and the sun took "one step" every day, that is, it was once combined with six equally divided circles familiar to the Babylonians to get 60 decimal places; Some people think that 60 has factors such as 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, which simplifies the operation and so on. 1854, Sinks first discovered this hexadecimal system on Babylonian clay tablets. These clay tablets are relics from about 2300 BC to 1600 BC. 1.4 = 82, 1.2 1 = 92,1.40 =102,2.1=/kloc. These formulas are very small. Such as1.40 =1× 60+40 =100 =102 and so on. Many fields still use hexadecimal, such as 1 hour equals 60 minutes; 1 min equals 60 seconds; Angle system, etc. China's heavenly stems and earthly branches calendar is also hexadecimal.