Chris Huff wrote:

> Note that your solution should be <sin(degrees(bla)), 0,
> cos(degrees(bla))>, unless you specify your angles in radians.

Oh yeah, forgot. That's such a pain in the arse.
What's so great about radians anyway? That the arc length of one radian is
the radius? Some magical property of pi? Why do mathematicians always seem
to prefer radians to degrees?

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David Fontaine wrote in message <38C833B5.111745F5@faricy.net>...
>What's so great about radians anyway? That the arc length of one radian is
>the radius? Some magical property of pi? Why do mathematicians always seem
>to prefer radians to degrees?


Because calculus works out much better if you use radians.

Mark

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