Dear Erik:
According to Immanuel Velokovsky (and perhaps Zechariah Sitchen also),
the year used to be 360 days long, back before solar-system catastrophes
changed its orbit. Thus it seemed natural to divide the circle into 360
degrees, one degree being the size of arc travelled by the earth in one
day. 360 also has the virtue of having many factors, thus being capable
of all kinds of equal subdivisions. (As a member of the Dozenal Society
[formerly the Duodecimal Society, I have a keen interest in such
matters.)
According to Graham Hancock in The Mars Mystery, the space aliens are
aware of the way we have divided the circle, and may even have endowed
us with this system themselves.
There are better ways to measure the circle, but that is another story.
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>Subject: virus: Running around in circles
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>Since everyone seems to be talking about circles, perhaps someone
>might be able to answer a question for me.
>
>Why does a circle have 360 degrees?
>
>I guess, potentially, the question might be: What is the origin of
>the degree?
>
>Sort of mathematical meme questioning.....
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>eEc
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>> ----------
>> From: Wade T. Smith[SMTP:wsmith1@camail2.harvard.edu]
>> Reply To: virus@lucifer.com
>> Sent: Monday, June 15, 1998 1:55 AM
>> To: virus@lucifer.com
>> Subject: Re: virus: getting it
>>
>> > Does it matter that a circle is represented
>> > symbolically as "pi" or does it matter that a person
>> > understand the pure nature of a circular form?
>>
>> Yes.
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>> Wade T. Smith
>> wade_smith@harvard.edu
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