Eli5: Why are circles specifically 360 degrees and not 100?

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Eli5: Why are circles specifically 360 degrees and not 100?

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Some people split it up into 400 (“gradians”), some people split it up into 2*pi (“radians”). 2pi is the nicest for calculus, if it’s just for geometry then it doesn’t matter at all.

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