Abolish degrees!

No, this isn’t an article about shutting down universities and preventing anyone from graduating! This is about a unit of angle measurement that I increasingly think is more trouble than it’s worth. It doesn’t seem to me that degrees bring enough benefits to outweigh their drawbacks and, in an ideal world, I don’t think they would earn their place in the school curriculum. It’s probably unrealistic to try to get rid of degrees – certainly not anytime soon – but, in my ideal mathematical world...