Math wizardry - revisited and corrected.

[Jim Hurley]

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>Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:09:18 -0400
>From: Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com
>Subject: Re: Math wizardry - revisited and corrected.
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>>  So multiply by (180 / pi)
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>Alex,
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>I was able to get the function to work with your earlier suggestion 
>"multiply by (360/ pi)", but using 180 makes it whack out (that's a 
>technical term) no matter
>what I try.  ;-)
>
>Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>
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Roger,

Alex is right. It should be 180/pi.

Perhaps the problem is how you  measure the angle. Remember that the 
y-axis points down in RR. Angle are measure CLOCKWISE from the 
horizontal.

Jim

PS If you want to test then then run this in the message box:

go stack  url  "http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/angleTest.rev"