Below, I've attempted writing some factors of 45 using the Babylonian base 60. I was a bit stumped by 90 since they did not have a 0 place holder, for 0.5. I ended up trying 11 different pairs because I was curious about how this would look for numbers from 1 to 10 and for a number twice the size of 45.
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Good. Factoring by 7 is tricky, isn't it?
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