math module broken?

[Dan Sommers]

On 23 Jul 2004 23:00:18 -0700,
danb_83 at yahoo.com (Dan Bishop) wrote:

> danb_83 at yahoo.com (Dan Bishop) wrote in message news:<ad052e5c.0407231555.53f3ea11 at posting.google.com>...

>> def mysin(x):
>> return math.sin(math.radians(x))

> Even better:

> def mysin(x):
>    return math.sin(math.radians(x % 360))

Why?

>>> for x in range( 20 ):
     print '%.12f %.12f' % (math.sin( math.radians( x ) ), math.sin( math.radians( x % 360 ) ))

0.000000000000 0.000000000000
0.017452406437 0.017452406437
0.034899496703 0.034899496703
0.052335956243 0.052335956243
0.069756473744 0.069756473744
0.087155742748 0.087155742748
0.104528463268 0.104528463268
0.121869343405 0.121869343405
0.139173100960 0.139173100960
0.156434465040 0.156434465040
0.173648177667 0.173648177667
0.190808995377 0.190808995377
0.207911690818 0.207911690818
0.224951054344 0.224951054344
0.241921895600 0.241921895600
0.258819045103 0.258819045103
0.275637355817 0.275637355817
0.292371704723 0.292371704723
0.309016994375 0.309016994375
0.325568154457 0.325568154457

Regards,
Dan

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