How many times can you divide a circle?

Question

I was told that a circle had 360 degrees, so it could be divided 360 times and no more. But what if you had a huge circle (so it would be easier to divide into more parts) and divided it couldn't it be more than 360 degrees?

Answer 1

a circle has 360 degrees but no circle can be divided

Answer 2

Yes, a circle has 360 degrees, not only is a circle divided into degrees, but degrees are divided into minutes and minutes are divided into seconds. You can have fractional degrees. You can divide a circle infinitely.

In a circle there are 360 degrees, and each degree is split up into 60 parts, each part being 1/60 of a degree. These parts are called minutes.

Each minute is split up into 60 parts, each part being 1/60 of a minute. These parts are called seconds.

If you ever looked at longitude and latitude of places on Earth, you'll see notations that look like: Latitude: 34° 05' North, Longitude: 118° 22' West. You read this as "34 degrees five minutes North and 118 degrees 22 minutes West" (this is Los Angeles).

The Earth is measured in degrees in a circle around the equator.

Latitude gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the equator. Lines of Latitude are the horizontal lines shown running east-to-west on maps. Latitude is an angular measurement in degrees from 0° at the equator to 90° at the poles

Longitude is also measured in degrees, but in a circle through the poles.

Answer 3

Actually, it depends upon what measure you use...   true, a circle has 360 degrees.  But each degree has 60 minutes, and each minute 60 seconds...  So, by that measure each circle can be divided into 1,296,000 parts.  Theoretically, it can be further divided, infinitely depending upon the size of the measurement.

Answer 4

No, a circle can be divided in an infinite number of ways, by defifintion

Answer 5

There is no limit as to how many times you can divide a circle, because it will always be 360degrees, no matter what size the circle is.

Answer 6

if the circle is bigger, it doesn´t matter, because it will cotinua having 360 degrees.

Every cirlce, small or big has 360 degrees. No matter what, it´s a rule.

Answer 7

A degree is a standard unit of measurement equal to 1/360 of a circle.

But is only a unit.  It can be divided further.

It would be like saying, a rope 12 feet long can only be

divided into 12 parts, each 1 foot long.

If you use a smaller unit, you get more parts.

Let's define a new term, a "millicirc" = 1/1000 of a circle.

Now the circle can be divided into 1000 of them.

But those can be subdivided further too.

In pure mathematical terms, the division can be carried

out indefinitely.  Whatever unit you decide on, you can

divide in half, or any other fraction.

In practical terms, there are limits to how small an angle

you can work with, depending on the precision of your equipment.

Since 360 is easily divided by lots of different numbers,

and it provides are fairly small granularity, over the millennia

the degree has become standard.  But it is by no means

the limit.