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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why do we use Degrees° to measure both angles and temperature?
gpt
A degree is a given fraction of a given scale. When talking about angles, a degree is a given fraction of a full cirle (360°), when talking about temperature, a degree is a given ammount of a scale. ( This however makes more sense looking at the Celsius scale, because as 100° means water boiling, 21° could also mean "21% of the water's boiling temperature, so 21° means here the 21st fracture of a scale 0-100° ).

EDIT: Another user mentioned the latin origin. "De Gradus" literally means "In steps of...." so you get the idea. A 45 degree angle is "45 steps on a ( 360 step ) circle.


If you call someone "stupid to a certain degree" you are expressing something similar. The person is not fully retardet, you know there is headroom left, but hell, he is dumb.