> I'd like to pass degrees to trigonometric functions.. is it possible to make
> maxima think in degrees so I don't have to think in radians?
The simplest way is to define your own trig functions as follows:
sind(d):=sin(d*%pi/180)$
asind(x)=asin(x)*180/%pi$
etc.
But this means that when you type sind(34), Maxima will display it as
sin(17/90*%pi), which might not be what you want.
There are in principle ways around this, but they are complicated and
probably not worth it.
-s