POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Request : Re: SV: Request Server Time
9 Aug 2024 13:21:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: SV: Request  
From: Warp
Date: 29 Aug 2000 11:59:24
Message: <39abdddc@news.povray.org>
Peter Hertel <pet### [at] hertelno> wrote:
: Why rotate degrees(etan2(A/B)) instead of rotate etan(A/B)?
: I know it's nothing big, and there surely are a reason they are like they
: are, I just don't know why.

  Radians are mathematically more suitable than degrees. This is specially
true when calculating things like integrals and differentials.

  If anything, I wonder why rotate uses degrees and not radians.

  And btw, it's atan(), not etan().

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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