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>Actually, in school, we used degrees almost exclusively.

=:O You had a BAD teacher!!

>Radians are
>a lot more logical way to express an angle (there is a good reason that
>a full circle has 2 pi radians, but there isn't any good reason it has
>360 degrees) and it makes a lot of formulas simpler, but in geometry
>people don't think in radians, but in degrees.
>

Hm. Yes and no. When using sin() functions, for example in physics
(modelling mechanical waves is an example), I really don't bother with the
degrees option. But I also say "the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180";
not pi...

Simen.

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