math module broken?
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com
Fri Jul 23 03:55:56 EDT 2004
On 2004-07-23, Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) <tdelaney at avaya.com> wrote:
> Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) wrote:
>
>> The python trigonometric functions use radians. The Microsoft
>> calculator (and the textbook) use degrees.
>
> I should note that there doesn't appear to be anything in the
> documentation saying this. The closest thing is the statement "The math
> module consists mostly of thin wrappers around the platform C math
> library functions."
And the man page for the C math libary function says:
DESCRIPTION
The sin() function returns the sine of x, where x is
given in radians.
What? Microsoft doesn't provide man pages for the C library
functions?!?!
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