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<node id="199754" title="Re: Perl Humor" created="2002-09-21 11:01:41" updated="2005-04-21 08:17:26">
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&lt;p&gt;Well, gradians would be the "metric" version of degrees since in those units a right angle has 100 gradians, which fits better in the metric system.  For whatever reason they are not.  Gradians are used in geodesics, though.&lt;/p&gt;</field>
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199510</field>
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