Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX bc calculator
Keywords: calculator bc unix
Message-ID: <10085@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 21 Apr 89 01:36:32 GMT
References: <5752@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 7

In article <5752@cbnews.ATT.COM> ms@cbnews.ATT.COM (Michael S. Stansbery) writes:
>I assumed (there I go again) that most people worked with degrees, not radians.

User interfaces and programming languages are two different worlds.
Practically all programming languages that support trig operations
use radians for the angular units, which corresponds to mathematical
convention.