Am Dienstag, 4. Februar 2014 17:57:16 UTC+1 schrieb Hans W Borchers:I was astonished to see the following functions in the Julia Standard Library, functions that accept (or return) degrees instead of radians: sind asind secd asecd cosd acosd cscd acscd tand atand cotd acotd I didn't find these function names in any other technical computing system.
Actually, these are present in Matlab. Two examples: http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/sind.html http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/acotd.html Many people come to Julia from Matlab, and may expect to find those functions present. One man's namespace clutter is another man's convenience function. I'm not arguing for or against inclusion of these fcns in Julia, but I am pointing out that they have precedent in other, popular computing systems. Stuart
