What is the significance to our number and degrees systems?

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I saw this video recently and it suggests that there is some "magical" reason that there are 360 degrees in a circle and that it is also connected with our number system. My question is:

  1. How did we decide upon our number system (i.e. The base 10 system)? I always believed it was because we have ten fingers to count with.

  2. Is our number system connected with the reason we have 360 degrees in a circle? If so, what is that reason? If not, what significance is there to 360?

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Both are arbitrary, and not everyone uses the same base. I've heard of different civilizations using base 20, computer scientists use base 2 and 16 a lot. Why 10 is so popular I believe is usually said to be because we have 10 fingers.

For 360, the story I've heard is that it is due to astronomy. There are 365 days in a year, but that's kind of an ugly number, so for convenience we change it to 360 which is divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,... a lot of numbers.