Fair enough. A previous discussion led me to believe the goal was for more transparent rings. Have you considered supporting something like the following?
cos(3).toreal() On May 21, 9:12 pm, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Harris wrote: > > How can I get sage to print the numeric value of an expression such > > as, cos(3)? > > sage: cos(3) > cos(3) > sage: RR(cos(3)) > -0.989992496600445 > > > > > Also is there a way to switch between 'radian' and 'degree' modes like > > in some calculators? > > Everything is in radians. To compute the cosine of 30 degrees, just > multiply by pi/180: > > sage: RR(cos(pi*30/180)) > 0.866025403784439 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@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-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---