[HN Gopher] Why are there 360deg in a circle?
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       Why are there 360deg in a circle?
        
       Author : vector_spaces
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2022-04-10 22:02 UTC (59 minutes ago)
        
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       | leed25d wrote:
       | When I worked for a company that wrote a lot of navigation-
       | related software we fixed circles to have 1024 degrees (but we
       | called them "bams" to avoid confusion)
        
         | jonsen wrote:
         | What were the advantages of using that number of degrees?
        
       | h2odragon wrote:
       | Nice.
       | 
       | Now do "why can't Pi be == 3?"
        
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