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by carpenecopinum 1367 days ago
> But they are turns of a circle of a given radius. > Radians (circle fractions)

It's the other way around actually. A turn is a turn, no matter the radius of the circle. Radians are the length of the line you need to draw a fraction of a circle with a radius of 1.

(In the end, both are just ways to describe angles and thus independent of any radii... the only effective difference between them is a constant factor of tau or two pi.)