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by IAmBroom 399 days ago
It's called a "gradian", and it's 1% of a right angle.

It's still used in some industries, where convenient.

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Yeah, sure. The last person I heard discuss it was my highschool math teacher and he did so only in passing—and that was quite some decades ago.

Anyway, my non-metric preference is the radian unless I'm doing something manual like woodworking.