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Typical of modern software design practices: hide everything that might confuse the imbeciles that want to use your software. No radians, no hex, no binary, no

Typical of modern software design practices: hide everything that might confuse the imbeciles that want to use your software. No radians, no hex, no binary, no settings. "Can't let the user change something, they may change it!"

WalterBright 11y ago
People who need a "degrees" mode (instead of radians) shouldn't be using a calculator anyway.
- wtallis 11y ago
  Because all the good compasses, protractors, sextants, transits, and maps are marked in radians, right?
  - WalterBright 11y ago
    Because conversion is trivial, and should be done on the inputs and the outputs, not the intermediate values.
    - J_Darnley 11y ago
      Trivial for for major values but I wouldn't know what 23 deg. was in radians without a calculator.
      - WalterBright 11y ago
        A special mode for that is not necessary: 23*pi/180