An angle is not a measurement of openness; it measures how much you "spin" going from one ray to the other. A full spin - going back to where you started - is 360 degrees. So a quarter spin, more commonly called a right angle, is 90 degrees no matter which protractor you use. Protractor markings are spaced differently based on their size (which you can see by putting one protractor on top of another) so no matter what, the same angle has the same measurement.
360 is a completely arbitrary number - we just chose it because it's easy to divide by a lot of things. You could also think about angles in fractions of a full turn (actually, there are several other systems that don't use 360 degrees as a full turn!) The important thing is what angles measure: they measure how much you turn.
I suspect that behind this question lies the notion that an angle should look like some sort of wedge shape, created by two distinct lines meeting at a point, whereas a 'zero angle' just looks like part of a line.
In fact, that was very much the view taken by Euclid in Euclid's Elements, his seminal work of classical geometry, in which he states
"...a plane angle is the inclination of the lines to one another, when two lines in a plane meet one another, and are not lying in a straight-line."
This definition appears to rule out a zero angle, and indeed a 180-degree angle — in fact, the description of an angle by any number of degrees assumes a concept of angle measurement that Euclid avoided: instead he compared their size by mapping them onto each other, or added them by mapping them adjacently to one another, and was thus able to make remarkable progress.
The idea of measuring angles has been of practical interest for thousands of years for purposes such as astronomy, navigation and telling the time, but the use of numerical measurements as a tool for studying theoretical geometry didn't really take off until the work of Descartes and Fermat in the 17th century. Their work led to the study of geometry through algebraic functions and number, and the development of a more numerical understanding of angle was a natural part of that process.
In short, if you think of angles according to numerically-measured size, it is convenient to have a definition that extends along the number line, but if you're thinking of them from a purely spatial perspective, then such an extended definition is perhaps unnecessary and potentially confusing.
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RMS = ROOT MEAN SQUARE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_square
You use the r.m.s. error as a measure of the spread of the measured values about the predicted y value (in this case your angles).