Degrees are a unit of measurement for angles, representing the rotation between two rays. The degree angle system divides a full rotation into 360 units called degrees. In mathematics, the degree symbol is used to represent an angle measured in degrees. The symbol is also used in physics to represent the unit of temperature: Fahrenheit. More @Wikipedia
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