Samuel Benge <sbe### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in news:3F8588D8.6080308
@hotmail.com:

> I'm unschooled in the field of traditional trigonomentry usage.... where 
> did you get the number 4.725?

That was simply the angle Patrick was rotating by, I pluged in the angle he 
was using in his code into a standard trig. equation:

tan(angle) = Opposite/Adjacent.

Trigonometry is the measurement of triangles.  A square can be broken down 
into eight right angle triangles.  In the eighth of a square, the Opposite 
(O) and Adjacent (A) are the same.  So if you change the angle while 
keeping O or A the same, it will tell you how much the new A or O should 
be.

Search the net for "trigonometry sin cos tan" for explanations of 
trigonometry.

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