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A degree is one measure of angles. There are 360 degrees in a circle and that gives 360 its importance in relation to a circle.

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Who is 360?

The number of degrees in a circle is 360. So the Who in your question is a circle.


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A circle is 360 degrees, so the answer is 43.2/360.


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What is the circumference of a circle whose arc length is 19.68 and degrees is 94?

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Why is 360 degrees a circle?

Tradition. The Egyptians did it first, and it caught on. It worked so well, that the Egyptian originally thought there were 360 days in a year.360 is extraordinarily useful as a number to divide into with its quite large number of factors, so we still use it for circular measurement.


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