Why is a circle exactly 360 degrees?

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It seems like an odd number especially fir the metric system.

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We use degrees in the same way America uses Imperial units – we inherited it, some people find it easier not to change, etc., but it’s far from the only angle measurement in town. Radians are arguably “better” in that they’re inherent in geometry thanks to Pi, but at the end of the day it’s a scaling factor for the same thing (like metres and yards are)

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