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Degree (deg) unit was introduced by the Greek geometer Hipparchus of Nicaea (ca. 180-ca. 125 BC), who developed the first trigonometric tables. This is the standard unit of angle measure, equal to 1/360 circle, 60 minutes, 3600 seconds.

Radian (rad) is the SI unit of angle. It is a derived SI unit, defined as m⋅m^-1, which means that angles are dimensionless. One radian is the angle at the center of a circle that cuts off an arc of length equal to the radius. Since the circumference equals 2 π times the radius, one radian equals 1/(2 π) of the circle, or approximately 57.296^o.