[lug] Quick bug check -- speedcrunch

Jed S. Baer blug at jbaer.cotse.net
Sun May 27 13:15:03 MDT 2018


On Sun, 27 May 2018 13:02:13 -0600
Lee Woodworth wrote:

> on a calculator: asin (0.5556) = 0.58908 radians or 33.752 degrees
> do the docs say the results are supposed to be in degrees?

Sort of. Silly me, forgetting such things. I tend to get bit by that a
lot. FWIW, the speedcrunch docs don't match my version, as they have
arcsin instead of asin. But, in fact, speedcrunch has an option to use
either radians or degrees.

You would correctly infer that I rarely use trig. ;)

http://speedcrunch.org/reference/basic.html#sc.arcsin


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