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
>
>


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