@nikitonsky I guess what I want to say is really that the process potentially went the other way around. First people noticed that the earth revolves around the sun in ~365 days. Then they wanted to encode this number in a unit of measurement. But the unit should be convenient, which imposes nice divisibility conditions on the number for a whole turn. The closest number to 365 which is divisible by 2,3 and 5 is 360. This might explain it. It might also be completely wrong

@nikitonsky I am not an expert, but it might be a combination of the fact that counting in groups of 60s was a thing (time is still counted like that for example; it has a lot of divisors, which is convenient) _and_ that the year is somehow very close to that 🤷‍♂️
In particular, you wouldn't want the angle to be 365°, because you lose most nice divisors! Actually, for any number between 361 and 365, either the half circle or a third of a turn are not expressible with integer values 🤔

@randahl @shuro I'm not sure I understand your point then: do you want to stop the random individual who's not too technically competent (which your suggestion would stop), or state actors (you cite Putin in the initial post) for whom I struggle to see how effective this measure would be?
If you are scared that some random thief might break in your home and steal your computer, a lock is a good idea. If you're scared that Putin wants your computer, I don't see what a lock can do to protect it.

@randahl wouldn't the use of VPNs just circumvent the mechanism that you are outlining, or am I missing something?

@olafurw another nice example is Miegakure, I'm still waiting for it to be released though 🥲
(On Wikipedia there's a nice timeline of the various announcements 😅)

@corentin @jon That would be the best option (imho), and Trenitalia in Italy signals it very well imho: it has an option marked "Paris (all stations)". DB in my experience has not been so consistent: I just booked a train to Milan and I had to spell out the station, otherwise looking for trains to Milan would not find the one I was looking for 🙈

@sil actually the whole problem of naming objects and ideas in mathematics is fascinating to me: ideas tend to be quite abstract, but you still want to give them a name which is as evocative as possible... And this can lead to many outcomes: poetry (for example, imho, étale morphisms by Grothendienck), antonomasia and also... Well, let's say more graphic examples (the monster group, the devil's staircases and blowups to name a few)
(Ah, we like to kill stuff in maths too 😅)