On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:49 PM, xliiv <tymoteusz.jankow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do some math with python: > > import math as m > m.degrees(m.atan(2)) >>>> 63.43494882292201 > > but when i lookup tg in a paper table (last decade math book) i've got these > values: > > tg(63'10'') = 1.9768 > tg(63'20'') = 1.9912 > tg(63'30'') = 2.0057 > > For me python should return something more like 63'2x'' than 63'4x''(becasue > 63'30'' is higher than 2.0)
According to Google: .43494882292201 degrees = 26.0969294 arcminutes So I would say that your table and Python are in agreement. Do you know what the notation 63'30" means? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
