You are right. I have done real-world projects with Matlab, and I am giving lectures on Matlab, but I have never seen or used these functions. I guess removing them now they are here will not be reasonable.
I fear, some of my students will be glad to hear about these functions. On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 6:44:51 PM UTC+1, Stuart Brorson wrote: > > These functions are included in Matlab as convenience functions. They > do get used frequently by folks working with real-world measurements. > It is true that one can always do rad = (x/180)*pi, but this > introduces the possibility of one ULP error in the calling arg. Not > big, admittedly, but try doing sind(180) vs. sin(pi) and see what the > results are. > > In any event, keeping them around as convenience functions is useful > for folks coming from (or porting code from) at Matlab background. > > Just my opinion. > > Stuart > >
