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So, I see people getting very excited about finding patterns in base 10 numbers. And also looking at a circle and saying, "Oh look, it's 360 degrees." And if you keep dividing by two, all of the numbers, all of the digits in the degrees still add up to nine, etc.

And there's nothing special about base 10 or 360 degrees. In fact, all trigonometric calculations that are worth their salt are done in radians. It's never done in degrees. So, a circle has 2π radians, not 360 degrees. Also, all computation happens in base two. It is either zero or one. That's it. Base two is the base for all computations, and radians is the measure of angle.

In fact, look at the most amazing equation — e^(iπ) + 1 = 0. This has everything in it. It has i, it has π, it has e, it has zero, it has one. It's the most amazing equation.

But there is an advantage of using base 10 and 360 degrees.