degrees and radians.

[Rob Gaddi]

murdocksgranpa at gmail.com wrote:

> On Saturday, May 4, 2002 at 3:37:07 AM UTC-4, Jim Richardson wrote:
>> 
>> 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? :
>> 
>> -- 
>> 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. 
>

While I fully admit to thinking in degrees, any time I'm actually doing
any mathematical work my units are either radians or cycles.  The
representation of angle in fixed point cycles actually comes out really
nicely; each bit takes you from hemispheres to quadrants to octants,
etc.

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