UNIX bc calculator

[Jim Frost]

In article <10085 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
|In article <5752 at cbnews.ATT.COM> ms at 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.

Radians are also more natural when you're estimating the values of
trig functions, see your nearest trig book for the formulas.  Without
some way of indicating pi they are much less natural to the user,
though.

jim frost
madd at bu-it.bu.edu