On Tuesday 28 June 2005 00:56, Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> The simplest way is to define your own trig functions as follows:
>
> sind(d):=sin(d*%pi/180)$
>
> 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.
oh well.. :-) I guess I'll stick with radians then. I was hoping that there
would be some parameter that I could simply set to deg or rad.
Max