On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Hermit <outofopti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry but I've spent over an hour on google and not found this. I've > had calculus but haven't used it in years. I decided to do some > brushing up and learn sage at the same time. > > I have the number -0.6167. If I want degree representation on my old > HP48 I use acos and get 128(degrees) In sage n(acos(y)) returns > 2.23534511018429. > > Well, the good news is I've just realized that is radians so I'm > closer. :) How do I get degrees and WHERE should I be looking in the > docs? > > Thanks. > Sage does not currently include any capabilities for "unit conversions". David Ackerman is currently working on implementing a unit conversions package, which would make the above problem trivial, when it gets included with Sage. In the meantime, do what Tim Lahey suggests. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
