Eli5: Why are circles specifically 360 degrees and not 100?
In: Mathematics
The Babylonians made it up. They thought it was cool that there are so many ways to divide it up. It’s also why we have 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute. There are also 60 arcminutes in a degree and 60 arcseconds in an arcminute. It’s factors of 60 all the way down.
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