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Re: Converting Radians into Degrees into Mathematica 6.01

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  • Subject: [mg85051] Re: Converting Radians into Degrees into Mathematica 6.01
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 05:07:12 -0500 (EST)

On 1/24/08 at 4:50 AM, lrebanks at netvigator.com (Lea Rebanks) wrote:

>I trying to Convert Radians into Degrees . I really want the output
>value in unit degrees for further calculations.

>I have tried this with no luck

>Convert[0.36*Radian, Degree]

>UnitsWrapper[20.626480624709636*Degree]

>I looked on the Math Group Archive & came across various Units
>Package, but still can not get it to work.

For me the simplest approach is to use the built in symbol Degree.

Typing any numeric value followed by Degree will return radians, i.e.,

180 Degree//N

returns the same thing as Pi//N

and 1/Degree//N returns 57.2958 the number of degrees in one radian.
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