On 5/22/07, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, here is what Mathematica does: > > In[7]:= N[Sin[10 Degree]] > Out[7]= 0.173648 > > I am in favor of something more like that, though I *loathe* adding > anything further to the preparser. Maybe this is more pythonic: > > sage: sin(10 * degrees) > > i.e., degrees would be a Python object that represent 1 degree. > The resulting object 10 * degrees would be a number with units. > > I would be interested in a general units package.
The degree is just a dimensionless number (= pi/180); no units package needed for this (though perhaps for other reasons). Simply define it as an ordinary constant like pi. Fredrik --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
