How did it come to be that there are 360 degrees within a circle?

Answer 1

very slightly under 24 hours, and as the circumference of the earth is roughly 24,000 miles, the equator is spinning at approximately 1000mph

Answer 2

23 hours 56 minutes you dunderhead not 24 like most people think

Answer 3

Because the humans who invented mathematics defined 360 degrees to be
the measure of one complete cycle of anything circular or periodic.

Answer 4

draw a line from the circle center to any point on the periphery. Then rotate around until you come to the same line you will find that you rotated 360 degrees.

Answer 5

Ancient Babylonians counted in 60s. 360 is divisible by all integers upto 12 - other than 7 and 11. There are approximately 360 days in a year - a rotation around the sun.

Answer 6

Four hours.

Answer 7

24 hours