The French did their best with the decimalised compass, with 400 gradians in the circle.
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When I was at school, my calculators always had this mysterious 'grad' function for converting degrees to gradians. Wikipedia tells me this is no longer the case; but it also tells me that the French artillery still use gradians. That might explain the old joke: "How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?"
To which the time-old answer is 'nobody knows' no matter how harsh that may seem.
And still we're going round in circles.