>>>>> "Barton" == Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> writes:
Barton> Maxima doesn't have an entirely satisfactory way to automatically scale all arguments to the trigonometric functions by
Barton> %pi/180. There are some partial workarounds mentioned on the Maxima list:
Barton> http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2008/010584.html
Barton> http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2009/015456.html
Barton> http://www.math.utexas.edu/pipermail/maxima/2009/015458.html
Barton> I'm not a Slashdot reader, so maybe these messages (or others) have already been suggested.
Barton> By the way: sin(30) = %pi/6 gives me the creeps--different
Barton> things should generally have distinct names.
I assume you mean sin(30) = 1/2, not %pi/6. But I agree that sin(30)
is way confusing and I would prefer sind(30).
Ray