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Base 60 and 12/24 make sense, because these are https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number .

The rest is so bad, that it needed one of the best mathematicians who ever lived on our planet to compute the date of our highest religious festival: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_of_Easter#Gauss's_Easter_...

We even named our electric calculation machines computer after the act of calculating the day of Easter: Computus.



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