[Python-ideas] Trigonometry in degrees

Neil Girdhar mistersheik at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 19:53:50 EDT 2018


On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 5:41 PM Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 6/10/2018 10:44 AM, Stephan Houben wrote:
>
> > I would suggest that compatibility with a major Python library such as
> > SciPy is more important than compatibility
> > with other programming languages.
> >
> > I would go even further and argue that scipy.special.sindg and its
> > friends cosdg and tandg
> > can serve as the reference implementation for this proposal.
>
> Or we could decide that we don't need to duplicate scipy.
>
>
Copying scipy's and numpy's interface makes vectorizing code a lot
simpler.  tensorflow also initially made the mistake of varying from
numpy's interface only to then deprecate the variations and adopt the
standard.


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