Discuss. New is superior.

>>8830255
You can't tell me what to do!

>>8830255
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradian#Use_in_surveying

>>8830268
200 = 400 Gradians?

360 is useful because it is highly composite

>>8830255
...why are the angles backwards?

>>8830255
Why not just use radians.

>>8830357
Then why is our counting system base 10 instead of base 12?

>>8830361
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.

>>8830426
Because we are stupid.

>>8830426
10 fingers

>>8830255

It isn't though.

>>8830255
Looks good

>>8830255
>degrees
wat

>0 at the 12 'o clock position
wat

>>8830426
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.

>>8830426
Because muh digits.
It's pretty shitty and should be changed desu.

>>8831105
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

>>8830255
> 200/3 = 66.666666...
> superior

>>8830361
This. Radians actually make sense.

>>8830255
cuck

>>8830921
>>8830360

Why does it matter where the starting point is?
If you have this diagram on a piece of paper, just turn it.

>>8831225
Lord Jesus no...

>>8831114
>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

>>8830255
>degrees
>not radians
get on my level pleb.

>>8831573
let me rephrase it to you, autist: math in base 10

>>8830426
Wait until the human race mutates some extra fingers.

>>8831961
>>8830992
>>8831105
>>8830468
there are cultures that naturally developed octal because they count the spaces between their fingers instead

>>8831953
You are now aware that every base would see itself as base 10.

>>8831953
That changes nothing and you are still a brainlet who is intellectually unfit to be posting on this board. Probably an engineer.

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>>8831993
>>8830468
>>8830992

>>8831993
>>8832002
You're the fucking brainlets for not getting what I mean.

>>8832013
All the basic algorithms for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing are the same in all bases you fucking cow.

>>8832021
As if I ever implied anything else. The thing is, duodecimal is advocated partly because it would supposedly make arithmetic easier, no?

>>8830992
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).

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.

>>8831225
π = 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273724587006 ...

>superior

>>8833660
It's easier to say and write pi than 200/3.

>>8832005
Based Babylonian arithmetic

>>8830426
To be fair, every base is base 10