3. Earth moves about one degree around the sun each day.

Earth moves about one degree around the sun each day.

No, I don't think you are correct. The concept of (1) is nontrivial and has no bearing on what we call the number. We could call it purple, and two could be elephant, and three could be beer can.

Whatever we call 90 in this new way of counting is what a right angle is. Whatever we call 180 in this new way of counting is what a straight line is. Whatever we call 360 in this new way of counting is how many degrees a circle has.

Base ten should, and I'll bet you Reddit Gold on this, have absolutely nothing to do with it. We did not just arbitrarily say "there are 360 degrees in a circle because there are 360ish days in a year... and then retroactively make all the other numbers make sense."

That just can't be true. It sounds ridiculous to even say it.

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