Zefram said:
>> There's nothing at all wrong with the radian - but there is a reason
>> calculators let you switch between degrees and radians. Each is best
>> for particular purposes,
> Certainly the radian is best for some purposes. But the degree? Is there
> some inherent feature of the circle that makes it particularly natural to
> divide it into 360 parts?
Not really.
Personally, I like the mil: 6400 mils in a circle, and a mil is close
enough to a milliradian that you can use the usual tricks (a mil subtends
about a metre at a kilometre).
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Received on Thu Oct 26 2006 - 13:06:32 PDT