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Old 21st April 2006 | 08:55
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Oktas8
 
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100° to a slightly less wrong angle? Someone already invented it, and it's called gradians.

But if you're going to optimise the direction system for computers' benefit, I dare say you'd use radians. And there are 1.5707963267948966192313216916398 of those in a slightly less wrong angle, but your computer finds that a more convenient number than 100.

Pi divided by two if you're wondering...
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