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60 also has a lot of nice divisors and lays out nicely on a circle. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30. If we're going to do radian measures why not just skip t
by rtkwe 6y ago
60 also has a lot of nice divisors and lays out nicely on a circle. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30.
If we're going to do radian measures why not just skip the extra tau and just say we're .75 through the year?
- WorldMaker 6y agoThat's exactly what I think would happen if we tried to use angular units for days or years (or even months): we'd either end up back where we started with a ~360-based system with lots of divisors or a percentage system. Exactly why I choose to use Tau in at least one example because radian systems using Tau are much are obviously "percent of the pie chart" than Pi examples.