On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Steven Schveighoffer <[email protected]>wrote: > > I read an article about this recently, it's definitely interesting. The > one place where I haven't seen it mentioned is what happens when you want > the area of a circle, since that necessarily involves the radius. I'd guess > you'd have to use τ/2 * r^2, but even then, that's one formula vs. the rest. > It's probably a good tradeoff. I can definitely see the advantage when > using radians. Never thought I'd have to re-learn trig again... >
It embarasses me to say that, after many years, working with radians and pi still makes my head hurt. "So I have to multiply -- no wait, divide -- no wait, multiply that by 2 ..."
