Erik Max Francis wrote: > Daniel Schüle wrote: > >> maybe I confuse, in german one would say "45 Grad" >> I took a freedom to translate it directly :) >> well, my calculator shows a "D" >> which most likely stands for Degree, I cannot tell for sure > > Probably. In English, you have degrees and gradians, which aren't the > same thing; gradians are defined so that there are 400 gradians in a > circle (so 100 gradians in a right angle).
In German, they're "Altgrad" (degrees) and "Neugrad" or "Gon" (gradians). Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list