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Why is degrees used in measuring angles and temperature?.

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By definition, when you divide a full rotation into 360 parts, a degree is the angle spanned by one of those parts. In contrast, on the temperature scale, a “degree” is the temperature “step” you get when you divide the temperature difference between the freezing and boiling points of water into 100 equal parts.
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