[ODE] XODE - should angles be in degrees or radians?

[gl]

I don't really have a stake in this, but I think degrees would be much nicer
for manual editing, as has already been pointed out.  I think the argument
that ODE uses radians internally doesn't hold water - after all, the point
of a 'text' format is human readability/editability.  Radians don't seem
very readable to me...
--
gl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Baker" <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>
To: "ode" <ode at q12.org>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ODE] XODE - should angles be in degrees or radians?


> Nate W wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 cledwith at d-a-s.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I would just _expect_ that the measure was in radians, because it's
> >>natural for a physics library to use radians, not degrees. And
> >>especially if I'd read the ODE docs and saw that every function took
> >>radians! Why require a conversion of a value brought in from a config
> >>file before ODE can use it?
> >
> >
> > That's persuasive - I hereby vote for radians instead. :-)
>
> Yeah - very pursuasive - I reluctantly switch positions to radians also.
>
>
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