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To: Red Badger

I know what a radian is. What’s your point?


74 posted on 11/08/2019 9:45:36 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

It’s a ‘natural’ derived measurement, with no need for a physical or literal standard to represent it.

A ‘degree’ can be anything, of any size value, but because we have a year of 365 days, 360 by the old Roman calendars, we got stuck into 360 degree circles.

We could just have easily used 1000 degrees to a circle, and came up with some easily manipulated numbers. The trigonometry would be the same, jut with a different set of standards.
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75 posted on 11/08/2019 9:55:04 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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