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What about 90° per right angle and not 100°? It made sense to keep some things like angle measurement and time as disruption was too great for very little prac
by hilbert42 1y ago
What about 90° per right angle and not 100°?
It made sense to keep some things like angle measurement and time as disruption was too great for very little practical benefit.
- az09mugen 1y agoStill France and French revolution context : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradian https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradian
- IAmBroom 1y agoIt's called a "gradian", and it's 1% of a right angle. It's still used in some industries, where convenient.
- hilbert42 1y agoYeah, sure. The last person I heard discuss it was my highschool math teacher and he did so only in passing—and that was quite some decades ago. Anyway, my non-metric preference is the radian unless I'm doing something manual like woodworking.