Talk:Grad (angle)
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Is it so much easier to add or subtract 100 than 90? This shouldn't be listed as a pro of the gon unit.
- yes its MUCH easier to just change the most significant digit rather than mess arround with carries or subtraction tricks. Plugwash 19:14, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Gradient
Curiously, MicroSoft did call it "gradient" for a while on its calculator that comes with Windows; my XP version has "Grads". Gene Nygaard 14:31, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Move
I've moved this from Gon to Grad. I've never heard it called the "gon" before (and I'm a measurements buff), the refernces given by the article imply that gon is a Scandianvian and possibly German word, dictionary.com does not find gon as a unit of measure. Rich Farmbrough 23:07, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Looks like ISO standard symbol is "gon" but it's in an annex of a document I don't have....
- I very much prefer to go back to gon, the official international standard name for this unit. Markus Kuhn 12:43, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
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- The French IGN maps still use the term "grade" for the unit of latitude and longitude (at least in their English language documentation). See [1].
[edit] grad
Trigonometry doesn't work nearly as well with grads or gons or whatever you want to call them. The sine of 30 degrees (or pi over 6)is a lot easier to deal with than 33.33333333333333333333 etc. grads - to get the even .5
[edit] Centigrade /Celsius
The article as currently posted seems contradictory. The confusion between centigrade (temperature) and centigrade (angle) was the reason for the <rejection> of centigrade (temperature), and the adoption of Celsius for temperature... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.96.86.4 (talk) 17:12, 13 March 2007 (UTC).
