re: “The degree is also similarly mathematically derived.”
Nop. Artificial, arbitrary selection of value.
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“Nop. Artificial, arbitrary selection of value.”
Lol. Anything that humans do is “artificial”. We didn’t find “radian” written on a rock floating in space, you know. “Radian” is defined by a mathematical formula created by humans, and “degree” is defined by another formula created by humans. Yes, we could arbitrarily pick a different amount to subdivide a circle into in order to come up with a different kind of “degree”, but I could also decide that we should measure our “radians” based on the ratio of a circumference to the diameter of a circle instead of the radius, and thus I would arrive at a “radian” that is twice the value of the one we currently have. So they are both artificial and arbitrary.