Re: [GZG] Shipping sheep

There is in fact a unit of angular measurement in which there are 400  
units in a circle. It is known as the "grad": http://en.wikipedia.org/ 
wiki/Grad_%28angle%29

It's never really taken off, but it has some use in surveying.

Best regards, Robert Bryett

On 22/05/2008, at 13:04 , Doug Evans wrote:

> I think eventually they decided something like that, though if you  
> look at
> the Franz Joseph stuff, it's incremented 400, not 360 degrees....

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