In article <38A98347.3FCAB042@osu.edu>, Ross Litscher 
<lit### [at] osuedu> wrote:

> thanks for clearing this up. is there a logical reason for the
> inconsistence?

Probably this: the standard C library uses radians, and the functions 
simply provide a way to access those, but it is easier to manipulate 
objects in degrees. Radians seem to be more common with math, so they 
were kept for the functions.

BTW, I remember seeing a patch which provided degree-based trig 
functions, but I don't remember seeing it in MegaPOV. Which would be 
strange, since it was included in the MultiPatch...
Does anyone know about the status of this patch? I think the author was 
going to separate it from the rest of his patch work, maybe dispersion.

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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