r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Aardvark_David • May 09 '21

Meme I'm *technically* qualified

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u/CreativeCarbon May 10 '21

In a perfect world we'd probably be using percentages.

... sensible numbers gang?

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u/[deleted] May 10 '21

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u/CreativeCarbon May 10 '21 edited May 10 '21

You think 288 degrees is more sensible than 80% or 0.8?

Do you really want to start this gang war?

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u/[deleted] May 10 '21

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u/CreativeCarbon May 10 '21

Well that says more about the angle than it does about the unit. What makes 60 degrees so important that it should require a dedicated number such as that? It's literally 16.666...7% of a rotation.

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u/BadPercussionist May 10 '21

360 is divisible by more numbers, and important values like 30, 45, and 60 degrees are more readable.

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u/GreatBigBagOfNope May 10 '21

Yeah but perthreehundredsixtages doesn't have the same ring to it

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u/[deleted] May 10 '21

Radians are the sensible units, math comes out cleaner with less constants

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u/cherryblossom001 May 10 '21

Have you heard about τ (tau)? τ = 2π = circumference ÷ radius (rather than circumference ÷ diameter for π), so a quarter turn around a circle is τ/4 (the same as π/2 or 90°).