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New is superior.
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Jonathan Cook
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Jaxon Hill
You can't tell me what to do!
Daniel Edwards
Elijah Clark
200 = 400 Gradians?
Nolan Collins
360 is useful because it is highly composite
Eli Nelson
...why are the angles backwards?
Carter Edwards
Why not just use radians.
Noah Robinson
Then why is our counting system base 10 instead of base 12?
Lincoln Myers
Exactly, this already pretty similar to radians but instead of using pi you use 100. So you go from 0;pi/2;pi;3pi/2;2pi to 0;100/2;100;3(100)/2;2(100). It's like using radians but with none of the usefulness because it doesn't use pi which is the whole point of radians.
James Richardson
Because we are stupid.
Tyler Wright
10 fingers
Nathan Lopez
It isn't though.
Noah White
Looks good
Nicholas Smith
>degrees
wat
>0 at the 12 'o clock position
wat
Austin Davis
10 is the maximum value you can express with the number of fingers you have. You can devise a more complex system using fingers (like binary) but the notion of 1 finger = 1 piece is really simple and robust for a number system, understood even by small children.
Although the number system is base 10, value of 60 was and is important because of its dandy dividability of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30. That is one reason why a minute has 60 seconds and an hour has 60 minutes.
Samuel Flores
Because muh digits.
It's pretty shitty and should be changed desu.
Thomas Stewart
you realize what a nightmare it would be to change?
besides, if you can't do base 10 maths you are a brainlet.
and of course, it hardly matters for higher math. it's a non-issue like pi vs tau
Brayden Robinson
> 200/3 = 66.666666...
> superior
Easton King
This. Radians actually make sense.
Leo Murphy
cuck
Blake Taylor
Why does it matter where the starting point is?
If you have this diagram on a piece of paper, just turn it.
Wyatt James
Lord Jesus no...
William Price
>if you can't do base 10 maths
>implying what base it's in matters
If you think base 10 maths is any different from base 12 maths then you are a brainlet desu
Brody Ortiz
>degrees
>not radians
get on my level pleb.
Carter Gutierrez
let me rephrase it to you, autist: math in base 10
Chase James
Wait until the human race mutates some extra fingers.
Andrew White
there are cultures that naturally developed octal because they count the spaces between their fingers instead
Jordan Thomas
You are now aware that every base would see itself as base 10.
Colton Bailey
That changes nothing and you are still a brainlet who is intellectually unfit to be posting on this board. Probably an engineer.
Connor Lewis
...
Luke Robinson
You're the fucking brainlets for not getting what I mean.
Dylan Myers
All the basic algorithms for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing are the same in all bases you fucking cow.
Christian Cox
As if I ever implied anything else. The thing is, duodecimal is advocated partly because it would supposedly make arithmetic easier, no?
Cameron Wilson
Base 6 is pretty handy for counting with your fingers; you have the ones on one hand and the tens on the other, so you can count to 35 (base 10).
Zachary Kelly
200 is divisible by
1,2,4,5,8,10,20,25,40,50,100,200
360 is divisible by
1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,12,15,18,20,24,30,36,40,45,60,72,90,120,180,360
I think it's pretty clear which one is more useful.
Daniel Clark
π = 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006 ...
>superior
Elijah Russell
It's easier to say and write pi than 200/3.
Hunter Diaz
Based Babylonian arithmetic
Xavier Flores
To be fair, every base is base 10