Reposting bc I dun goofed before

  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.

    • Rodeo
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      9 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.