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[project @ 1999-10-12 02:22:25 by jwe]
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date Tue, 12 Oct 1999 02:27:27 +0000
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298 @end deftypefn 298 @end deftypefn
299 299
300 @node Trigonometry, Sums and Products, Complex Arithmetic, Arithmetic 300 @node Trigonometry, Sums and Products, Complex Arithmetic, Arithmetic
301 @section Trigonometry 301 @section Trigonometry
302 302
303 Octave provides the following trigonometric functions: 303 Octave provides the following trigonometric functions. Angles are
304 specified in radians. To convert from degrees to radians multipy by
305 @iftex
306 @tex
307 $\pi/180$
308 @end tex
309 @end iftex
310 @ifinfo
311 @code{pi/180}
312 @end ifinfo
313 (e.g. @code{sin (30 * pi/180)} returns the sine of 30 degrees).
304 314
305 @deftypefn {Mapping Function} {} sin (@var{z}) 315 @deftypefn {Mapping Function} {} sin (@var{z})
306 @deftypefnx {Mapping Function} {} cos (@var{z}) 316 @deftypefnx {Mapping Function} {} cos (@var{z})
307 @deftypefnx {Mapping Function} {} tan (@var{z}) 317 @deftypefnx {Mapping Function} {} tan (@var{z})
308 @deftypefnx {Mapping Function} {} sec (@var{z}) 318 @deftypefnx {Mapping Function} {} sec (@var{z})