Wonder why we don’t have 720 degrees… (6!)
5! 120 however lacks fine precision required at human scale. Haven't done the math but it's probably something like using 3.1 as the analog of Pi.
360 seems like it might have been chosen based on a mix of precision and practicality. Many small prime factors ( 2 2 2 3 3 5 ). Also an extra prior prime factor for every added prime. 75600 too big, and 12 what analog clock faces use as their primary number.
Like minutes and seconds.
The 12 hours in a day and the 12 months are also 60 / 5.
This all connects to ancient Mesopotamia somehow.
I guess, for a sufficiently large value of 12.