Because the ancient mathematicians who were doing work with circles decided that 360
would be a good number to use to define one complete revolution (or circle).
In that way, they could split up the whole thing into 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 24,
30, 36, 40, 45, 60, 72, 90, 120, or 180 equal pieces without ever using fractions of degrees.
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The number of degrees in a circle is always 360.The number if degrees in a part of a circle is that same part of 360.In 74.2% of a circle, there are 74.2% of 360 degrees.
360 degrees
There are an infinite number of angles between 180 degrees and 360 degrees but 182 degrees is one of them.
360 degrees
Another measurement could be 283-360 or -77* or 283+360 or 643*