degrees and radians.

[Gary Herron]

On 08/23/2016 09:08 PM, murdocksgranpa at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
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> Also Borland C and C++ used Degrees and NOT Radians.. go look at the libraries
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> Just for what its worth.
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Do you really need anything more complex than this?

 >>> toRadians = math.pi/180.0

 >>> math.sin(90*toRadians)
1.0

Perhaps I'm not understanding what you mean by "clunky",  but this seems 
pretty clean and simple to me.


Gary Herron


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