[ODE] XODE - should angles be in degrees or radians?
Chris Jefferson
caj at cs.york.ac.uk
Fri Mar 19 12:08:11 MST 2004
Jon Watte wrote:
>I thought we'd already agreed that a single format is better, because otherwise some importers will forget to switch on the option.
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>Radians is fine. Dividing by 180/pi on export is a no-brainer for a writer.
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One reason I would vote in favour of degrees is that when we are
defining objects, it would be nice to be able to exactly define right
angles.
For example, if I want a right-angle I can write "degrees=90". I can't
exactly specify a right angle in radians. While it might not matter, it
seems somehow nice to be able to get these things exact (unless you
allow specifiying angles as a multiple of pi, but then we come back to
multiple represenations again)
Chris
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