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Default Temperature system of the USA

It happens that James Wilkinson Sword formulated :
On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:45:06 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 10/22/2016 06:52 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

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WTF is a circular calculation? Decimal is always easier to calculate
things in.


Probably a calculation using angles. 180 degrees (angle) is half a
circle, but IIRC angular degrees have nothing to do with temperature.

BTW, metric uses a different unit to measure angles, and it has nothing
to do with temperature either.


Never heard of a metric version of degrees.


Grads have one hundred divisions per quarter circle.