Monday, February 7, 2011

360 degrees circle

I was searching the internet about this question and i found that almost every answer is connected to the babylonians which who created the 360 degrees as a base measurement for a circle. I found out that they use 6 as a base number then multiply it by 60 to create a 360 degree. The babylonians also knew that a hexagon is 6 times the radius of a circumscribed circle, so they used 6 as a based number. But i think it was actually more of a random guess of number.

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