| ▲ | grg0 3 days ago | |
What happened to degrees or radians? | ||
| ▲ | fiddlerwoaroof 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
A degree is too big for the effect, the division of the degree into 60 arcminutes and the arcminute into 60 arcseconds is the standard subdivision of degrees as an angle measurement going back to the Sumerians. | ||
| ▲ | skeledrew 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Still doesn't say much to many. Temperature will be what comes to mind first for the lay person when they hear "degree", blank stare for "radian". But pretty much everyone in the US knows what an "inch" is, and the rest of the world can do a quick lookup/conversion. And everyone knows immediately on seeing the headline that something moved from its usual spot to somewhere else. | ||
| ▲ | ForOldHack 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Again... AI blows, but ... "Calculate the fraction of the circumference represented by the arc segment:Divide the arc segment length by the Earth's polar circumference (in inches):31.5 inches / 1,574,896,558.4 inches = 0.0000000200012759 Radians. Which is kinda interesting, as it calculates the earths' circumference in Inches. 1.57 Billion inches. | ||