On 12/15/2012 10:06 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > On 12/15/2012 08:51 PM, kcrisman wrote: >> Just sayin'. >> >> http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/12/14/214231/ask-slashdot-replacing-a-ti-84-with-software-on-a-linux-box >> >> and then check the comments. > > The original poster didn't like maxima, because it doesn't have a > "degrees" button where all trig calculations are done in degrees. > > How about sage? Does that have a "degrees" button? > > Also many calculators have a "grad" button, where I found out by reverse > engineering that there are 400 grads in a complete circle. Does > *anyone* use grads? >
The e.g. sine function is defined in radians; that probably won't change. If we're to support degrees, Octave does it with separate functions: octave:1> sind(90) ans = 1 octave:2> sind(180) ans = 0 octave:3> sin(pi/2) ans = 1 octave:4> sin(pi) ans = 1.2246e-16 Unless there's a name clash somewhere, that makes sense to me, and would be easy to implement. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
