sexagesimal

The Babylonians used a base 60 [sexagesimal] floating point system with the exponent implied by the context.

Those ancient scientist did know the square root of 2 and PI by 4 sexagesimal figures.

The sexagesimal system for times and angles was already in use in Mesopotamia circa 2000 BC.

My guess is that it's because you can divide sexagesimal time units into more useful fractions.

Anything that can interpret Norway’s country code as a bool, or certain numbers as sexagesimal, has not been well-thought out.

It's common in astronomy to encode the targets position in the name in sexagesimal units.

Our sexagesimal division of angles and time are products of Sumerian culture.

I also went above base 10 and made enough glyph to cover a sexagesimal base.

Business support will need to know sexagesimal math--for the clock-watching.

In fact, there are actually legitimate reasons why some legacy units are superior—for instance the duodecimal or sexagesimal systems which have many more factors than the decimal.

If I remember my reading of A History of Mathematics well enough, they very much were into base 60 (sexagesimal) because of the numerous divisors (1/2/3/4/5/6/10/12/15/20/30/60).

However, even for numeric computations done with pen and paper, the radian was inconvenient so in the 19th century the sexagesimal degrees and the cycles continued to be used in parallel with the radians.

I admit the sexagesimal parsing is not the result I expected but I would have certainly expected something odd to happen given that the value includes a “:” character.