degrees and radians.

[murdocksgranpa at gmail.com]

On Saturday, May 4, 2002 at 3:37:07 AM UTC-4, Jim Richardson wrote:
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> I am trying to get the math module to deal with degrees rather than
> radians. (that it deals with radians for the angular functions like
> sin() isn't mentioned in the docs, which was sort of an eyeopener :)  I
> can't find any info on doing this. I can convert from-to degrees in the
> code calling the function, but that's a bit clunky. Any pointers to an
> FM to R? :)
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> Jim Richardson
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For what is is worth.. Electrical Engineers for the most part work in degrees NOT Radians for example try doing polar to rectangular or vice versa in polar. 
I have never seen it done. 

Also Borland C and C++ used Degrees and NOT Radians.. go look at the libraries

Just for what its worth.