On Aug 20, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Hermit wrote:
> > Sorry but I've spent over an hour on google and not found this. I've > had calculus but haven't used it in years. I decided to do some > brushing up and learn sage at the same time. > > I have the number -0.6167. If I want degree representation on my old > HP48 I use acos and get 128(degrees) In sage n(acos(y)) returns > 2.23534511018429. > > Well, the good news is I've just realized that is radians so I'm > closer. :) How do I get degrees and WHERE should I be looking in the > docs? > I'm not sure about docs, but a simple way to convert from radians to degrees is multiply by 180/pi since there are 180 degrees in pi radians. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo http://www.linkedin.com/in/timlahey --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
