On May 21, 2007, at 10:55 PM, Bobby Moretti wrote: >> Global namespace pollution? Would the (implicit) target audience of >> degree-based trig know to look for sindeg, etc.? Would it work like >> >> sage: cosdeg(45) >> cos(pi/4) >> >> It's much better than a global state tough. > > It was never a question of global state. Sorry if I made it seem > that way. If we were to do it (which still I disfavor), it might > look something like > > sage: cos(45, units=="degrees") > 1/sqrt(2)
I'll vote -1 for accommodating degrees, and +1 for examples in the doctests like To take the sin of 45 degrees, type sage: sin(45 * pi/180) 1/sqrt(2) I think anything we do that's not super-annoying to most SAGE users will require documentation and we might as well show how to do it the "right" way. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
