Real-Life Weirdness

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by ak_aramis

Essentially, very inobvious shortcuts in base 10, base 2, and base 16 become apparently almost obvious in Base 60.

Those shortcuts may or may not be reverse engineered into other bases; I don't know.

Okay, but are any of these things revelations that modern mathematicians didn't know about until this paper revealed "the lost secrets of Babylonian trig?" Do they gain anything by using base-60 that isn't gained by using radians or purely algebraic expressions, and that wasn't already known about?