On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 20:38 -0400, John W. Kennedy wrote:
> Mike Carmichael wrote:
> > Sorry for the confusion & Thanks for all the help!
> > 
> > It should have mentioned that I needed the tangent of 89 Degrees & had 
> > converted 89 to its radian equivalent using 57.296 as the number of 
> > degrees in one radian before using TAN.
> 
> That is the entire explanation of your problem. 57.296 is an 
> insufficiently accurate approximation of 180/pi.
> 
> > I'm going to download the beta upgrade now!
> 
> A good idea on general principles, but it isn't your problem. Use 
> RADIANS(89) instead of 89/57.296.

<tip author="Jonathon Coombes" subject="Value of Pi" category="Calc">
If you need to use pi in any of your Calc formula, then use the
one provided by the program - PI(). This function returns pi with 
a precise value useful for calculations.
</tip>

Regards
Jonathon
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