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A circle turns three hundred and sixty degrees
Not a hundred, not some tidy round number
Why does a circle have 360 degrees?
Because four thousand years ago, Babylon didn't count by ten
It counted by sixty, on the knuckles of its fingers
And six times sixty is three hundred and sixty
Almost the number of days in a year: each day, the Sun moves one notch along the circle of the sky
Four thousand years later, that base sixty is still here: the degrees of the compass, the minutes and seconds on our watches
Every circle that closes is Babylon, still counting on its fingers

