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by mannerheim
1888 days ago
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Algorithms for calculating trig functions would probably not look good using degrees. Maybe it might look OK with what I assume is what's usually used (lookup tables + interpolation?), but for the Taylor series expansion you have to multiply by powers of pi/180 everywhere. Calculus is generally worse with degrees. The derivative of sin(pi/180 x) is pi/180 cos(pi/180 x). That's pretty inconvenient, especially if you're writing any sort of models that need to solve differential equations. Same reason base e is preferred for exponents. |
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