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Hey, I just finished up the physics section of my current game and the reason it wasn''t working in the first place was because of degrees and radians. When I use the trigonometric functions(sine, cosine, tangent), they only work as I want them to when I change my degrees to radians. If I don''t change them, the math does not work properly. Could anyone tell me why this happens? We never encountered anything like this in Trigonometry class, except she said something about using degrees, you''re left with weird degrees in your formula dimensions. "Donkey, if it were me, you''d be dead." I cna ytpe 300 wrods pre mniute.

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degrees to radians? I have to change from radians to degrees. This is because the trigonometric functions return in radians as opposed to degrees.

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degrees to radians? I have to change from radians to degrees. This is because the trigonometric functions return in radians as opposed to degrees.

No, he''s right. sin() accepts radians and not degrees. That''s why it only works with radians.

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Well if your function is expecting radians then then the input passed in needs to be radians. if it is expecting degrees then degrees have to be passed. This would explain the odd behavior as a function designed for one is not compatible with the other unless a conversion is made.

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DuncanBojangles, I think you will find that in almost all real world applications (from trig to calculus and beyond where calculations are concerned) you will find radians used over "degrees". Computing is no exception either. Though it is easier to visualize degrees in angles than some not so common radian measures.

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Multiply your degree by PI over 180. Better yet, make it a constant:

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Radians aren''t too hard to work with, if you think in terms of multiples of pi so you don''t have to look at all those irrational numbers.

45 degrees = 1/4 pi radians = 0.7853... radians 90 degrees = 1/2 pi radians = 1.5708... radians180 degrees = pi radians = 3.1416... radians360 degrees = 2 pi radians = 6.2832... radians

degrees/57.2958

pi/180 * degrees

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Thanks for telling me that the c++ trig functions only accept radians, cowsarenotevil. That is something I did not know.

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