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by ascar 1359 days ago
I already learnt in school to calculate trigonometry using radians or turns depending on the situation. It was part of the general math curriculum in Bavaria. As far as I am aware both are mathematically sound and there is no reason to religiously use one of them over the other. Let your use-case or input parameters decide. The examples given in the article definitely make no sense in radians.
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"I already learnt in school to calculate trigonometry using radians or turns depending on the situation. It was part of the general math curriculum in Bavaria. "

Out of interest, when did you go to school in Bavaria and in which grade did you learn about turns? I was in school in Bavaria a long time ago and I don't remember learning about turns there. Could very well be that I forgot or our teacher forgot to teach it.

That should've been about 15 years ago. I don't remember the grade, but based on the subject probably 8th or 9th? I thought it was in the textbook but possibly our teacher just added it himself.