Eli5: Why are circles specifically 360 degrees and not 100?
In: Mathematics
360 actually comes from the number of days in a year. When early civilizations tried to measure a year they often came up with numbers a little over 360. Thinking the world was made by gods and made sense they decided 360 made sense.
As in a year the stars circle the earth if looked at at the same time, the idea of a year and a circle were very tightly related to each other.
So every degree represents a day.
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