What is the difference between a degree and radian?

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What is a radian? What is the fundamental difference between a degree and a radian? Why is  expressing an angle in radian measure is preferable to other measures of angles?

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A good definition of radian with visual images of the concepts (as well as descriptions to answer the other questions) is available on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radian

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