gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (04/21/89)
In article <5752@cbnews.ATT.COM> ms@cbnews.ATT.COM (Michael S. Stansbery) writes: >I assumed (there I go again) that most people worked with degrees, not radians. User interfaces and programming languages are two different worlds. Practically all programming languages that support trig operations use radians for the angular units, which corresponds to mathematical convention.
madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) (05/01/89)
In article <10085@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: |In article <5752@cbnews.ATT.COM> ms@cbnews.ATT.COM (Michael S. Stansbery) writes: |>I assumed (there I go again) that most people worked with degrees, not radians. | |User interfaces and programming languages are two different worlds. |Practically all programming languages that support trig operations |use radians for the angular units, which corresponds to mathematical |convention. Radians are also more natural when you're estimating the values of trig functions, see your nearest trig book for the formulas. Without some way of indicating pi they are much less natural to the user, though. jim frost madd@bu-it.bu.edu