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[–] NegativeInf 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

12, 24, and 60 are highly composite numbers and easily divisible by more numbers than 10. Also, if you are doing that, go ahead and redefine degrees in a circle and all that jazz too. Go ahead.

[–] calcopiritus 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There has been a "metric" measurement of angles for a long time. The radian. It's pi based instead of 10 based, but it makes way more sense than degrees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it really does. Degrees are arbitrary, radians are derived from the unit circle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The unit circle is hardly arbitrary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If everything is arbitrary, nothing is arbitrary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you even know what arbitrary means?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Surely its meaning is arbitrary.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

In the days of doing math by hand, that might have mattered.

Let me introduce you to this little thing called a calculator.