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   Adam Nedens(Snoopster) said, 8 months ago

   Use your golf balls. They’ll help
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 8 months ago

   I’ve never met anyone who could think in radians. Everyone converts to degrees. They are a pain. 57.3 degrees per radian… makes it soooooo simple…
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   DerkinsVanPelt218 said, 8 months ago

   You’ll get nothing and like it!
   -Caddyshack
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   dukedoug said, 8 months ago

   @Nabuquduriuzhur

   Radians are important in some disciplines, such as electrical and electronic engineering. We think in multiples of pi, degrees don’t usually come into it so the conversion factor is not important.
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   Doctor11 said, 8 months ago

   Jason is too smart for his own good sometimes.
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   Keith said, 8 months ago

   To Jason, that’s a big… whew!
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   Strod said, 8 months ago

   @Nabuquduriuzhur

   Au contraire, most electrical engineers, mathematicians, and others who have to deal a lot with trigonometry and Fourier analysis end up preferring radians.
    
   It becomes easy once you realize that the circumference of a circle is 2πr, so a complete turn is 2π, a half-turn is π, and a right angle is π/2.  From there, any interesting angle becomes a fraction of π.
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   DavidRT said, 8 months ago

   With a BS & MS in physics and a career in physics, I not only learned to think in radians and the metric system, once I started programming in machine language using an Assembler, I learned to think and do arithmetic in hexadecimal — base 16. I can do calculations in base 2 (1’ & 0’s) or any base if I take my time. FULL DISCLOSURE: Now that I’ve been retired for 14 yrs and do a lot of sailing with a magnetic compass and a GPS, I’ve reverted to thinking in English units, degrees, knots, and nautical miles. If you don’t use it, you lose it. That’s what my wife keeps telling me.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago

   Math is not my forte.
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    dflak said, 8 months ago

    Use mills – 1 yard at 1000 yards – works if you are shooting artillery.
    

    
    Computing loft and imparting loft are two different things. That’s the difference between planning and execution.
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    kea said, 8 months ago

    @Nabuquduriuzhur

    thinking in radians isnt bad; it’s the conversion thats a pain.
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    Jeff0811 said, 8 months ago

    @Strod

    MMM … Pie
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    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 8 months ago

    re: I stand corrected on electrical engineering.
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    But why use it elsewhere? It gets more than a little messy trying to design anything civil or mechanical with radians. Surveying would be all but impossible. I can’t imagine doing a property lines survey translating the decimal degrees (DMS is not now as far as I know) from the instrument to radians and back again. Imagine turning an angle of 0.315363246 radians, vs. degrees. Or designing a tool with radians. The measurement is far too large for convenience. Or requires conversion, such as using a unit of mass like a kilogram vs. a unit of weight like the lb. Extra steps.
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    Interesting that Grads didn’t take off— the military used something similar in the past. The circle being 360 goes back to the Sumerians. For a base-60 number system like theirs, it made perfect sense. One based on tens has it a bit more difficult.
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    Jim Kleinhans said, 8 months ago

    @Night-Gaunt49

    Neither is golf. The most boring “game” in the world.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago

    @Jim Kleinhans

    It does use mathematics, plain geometry and skill. But I have never played it to find out.
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