I have a book about math across different cultures that has a lot of really cool descriptions of different calendars in a variety of cultures - I particularly remember one that had to do with when the fish would start showing up to spawn near their island, iirc - and I'd recommend it here but I can't for the life of me remember the title right now. I'll try to remember and dig it up later when I'm less asleep.
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From a cultural perspective, I found the Mayan counting system to be quite intuitive for a base-20 system. We're used to base 10 or base 60 (clocks) so it's interesting to think how that number system evolved in their society. Having five fingers probably helps.
