From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie troubles with Sin and Cos
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:32:53 -0800
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Neil Stone wrote:

> As far as I know the 'C' sin, cos, tan functions return and accept there
> parameters in radians rather than degrees.

Correct.  This is true of most programming languages, actually.

> I know there is a
> simple formular to convert radians to degrees and vice-versa but I don't
> know it (I don't use the sin, cos, etc functions that much), sorry. Does
> anybody know it, I sure some one does, I might need it myself at some
> point.

There are pi rad in 180 deg, so to convert deg to rad, multiply by pi/180.

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