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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Rodeo 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Rodeo 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The unit circle is hardly arbitrary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Rodeo 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If everything is arbitrary, nothing is arbitrary.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you even know what arbitrary means?

[–] Rodeo 1 points 1 year ago

Surely its meaning is arbitrary.

[–] Rodeo -1 points 1 year ago

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

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