Andrea Aime a écrit :
> Sorry, what are grade units? Radians? Tried to find it on a dictionary,
> but failed (grade has meaning for school grade, grade as an evaluation
> of some school work, and so on, but nothing dealing with geometry...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grad_%28angle%29

A circle is 400 grades, or 360 degrees, or 2pi radians... Grades were invented
at a time where some peoples where pushing for "everything in base 10" (angle,
time, etc.) as an extension of the metric system, but it never had great 
success.

        Martin

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