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Well it's not exactly surprising, the US is fundamentally built on arbitrary baseless measurement units so getting out of that mindset is probably difficult.

A unit that could be inherently defined by math itself and not a farmer looking at their hands and feet? Preposterous!



> A unit that could be inherently defined by math itself and not a farmer looking at their hands and feet?

Where do you think base ten comes from?


Base 2, 10, 3, 8, hex, radians stay radians.


Radians aren't a unit, and degrees have nothing to do with peoples' hands or feet.

Imagine using an angle measurement for physical things such that angles with rational measurements stack to a full circle. Preposterous.




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