Re: [LEAPSECS] Titan Time

From: Clive D.W. Feather <clive_at_demon.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:05:03 +0100

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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