Maxima mentioned on Slashdot



On 2012-12-16, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:

> Maxima doesn't have an entirely satisfactory way to automatically
> scale all arguments to the trigonometric functions by %pi/180.

Well, whether it is satisfactory is a matter of taste, but as an update
to the messages cited, there is this:

  load (ezunits);
  sin (1 ` degree);
   => sin(%pi/180)
  sin (10 ` degree);
   => sin(%pi/18)
  sin (30 ` degree);
   => 1/2
  atan2 (3, 4) `` degree;
   => 180*atan(3/4)/%pi ` degree
  float (%);
   => 36.86989764584403 ` degree

All the best,

Robert Dodier