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Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 14:45:50 +1100
From: Michael Abbott aka frEk <20014670 AT snetch DOT cpg DOT com DOT au>
Organization: Student of Computer Power Institute
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Help needed with a program I am writing
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Heya

Marp wrote:

> P K <paulkennedy AT citlink DOT net> wrote in message
> news:dPE24.416$wM4 DOT 28044 AT news-west DOT eli DOT net...
> <snip>
>
> >     cos_table[a]=cos((float)a/180 * pi);
> >     sin_table[a]=sin((float)a/180 * pi);
>
> I'm not sure why you get the error you do, but you want the a/180 to be
> calculated first, right? You have to surround that with parenthesis
> otherwise the 180 * pi gets calculated first (order of operations) and you
> get a different number from the one you want.

I'm not sure about that one... Isn't * on the same level as / which means that
anything on that level gets calculated from left to right? Correct me if I'm
wrong :)

- Michael