2018-06-08 15:19 GMT+02:00 Hugh Fisher <hugo.fis...@gmail.com>: >> Julia provides a full set of trigonometric functions in both radians and >> degrees: >> >> https://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.4/manual/mathematical-operations/#trigonometric-and-hyperbolic-functions >> >> They use sind, cosd, tand etc for the variants expecting degrees. I >> think that's much more relevant than OpenGL. > > OK, that's interesting, I did not know that. And a quick google shows that > Matlab also has sind and similar variants for degrees. > >> Although personally I prefer the look of d as a prefix: >> >> dsin, dcos, dtan >> >> That's more obviously pronounced "d(egrees) sin" etc rather than "sined" >> "tanned" etc. > > If Julia and Matlab are sufficiently well known, I would prefer d as suffix > rather than prefix.
I graduated less than a year ago - Matlab at the very least is quite well-known, we got lessons about it (although I was the one kid who used python for his matlab assignments...you can make do, with matplotlib, google, opencv, and numpy.). I also believe they give free/heavily discounted licenses to schools, hoping that after graduation, those students are used to matlab and will try to make their employers buy full-priced versions. I don't know about Julia, though. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
