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From: Zach Wolff <zachary_wolff@YAHOO.COM>
To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
Subject: unit names
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 10:00 AM
Why do we use the same word, degrees, for degrees of temperature
and
degrees of arc? Does anyone know the history behind this? What
about
minutes and seconds of arc compared with minutes and seconds of
time?
Is there any logical or historical link?
Thanks for any fun facts you uncover.
Zach
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