Is it a coincidence that there are 360 degrees in a circle and 365 days in a year?
In: Mathematics
Yes. It’s coincidence. 1 degree is about the smallest angle of misalignment that we can see with the naked eye. I forget which ancient civilization it was, but one of the ones that used the hexadecimal system of numbers, in which 360 is a nice number. It’s kinda like how we made the metric system based on 1000’s.
If we wanted it to match, there would be 365 degrees in a circle. There have been much weirder measurements…like the mile having 5280 feet for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
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