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  2. From: rickert@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (John H. Rickert)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math
  4. Subject: history of radians
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug13.214510.25822@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
  6. Date: 13 Aug 92 21:45:10 GMT
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  13. Today a student asked me when radians were 
  14. first used as measures of angles.
  15. I know that degrees came from the Babylonians, 
  16. but who came up with radians?
  17.  
  18. john rickert
  19. rickert@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
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