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From: awd@dbase.A-T.COM (Alastair Dallas)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Trig functions in dBase/Clipper
Summary: dBASE IV does trig
Message-ID: <661@dbase.A-T.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 90 04:03:25 GMT
References: <2597.26b96f8c@csc.anu.oz>
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale, Calif.
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dBASE IV includes built-in trig functions, including decimal to radian
conversion.  I pushed for this in '87 and lately I've been wondering
why we need it.  More precisely, I've been thinking that trig functions
might be the first to go if we were to pare the product down.  I'd
like to hear why trig functions and databases go together.

The reason I pushed for it in '87 is because I wrote trig functions
for dBASE III in '84.  They were published in an appendix of the
"Advanced Programmer's Guide" by Castro, Hanson and Rettig, which
is an Ashton-Tate book available in bookstores around the country.

/alastair/