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Re: the sky is falling down again [message #52433 is a reply to message #52378]

Wed, 31 January 2007 13:56

Kenneth Bowman
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Registered: November 2006

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In article <pan.2007.01.31.20.17.22.400474@as.arizona.edu>,
JD Smith <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:30:57 -0700, David Fanning wrote:
>
>> Where else can people go when they want
>> to count angles on the head of a pin? :^)
>
> I prefer counting them in radians, because !RADEG is single precision
> floating point.

Thanks for chaffing David, JD. I refrained. ;-)

IDL has a built-in double precision value of Pi, so I include

DEFSYSV, '!DDTOR', !DPI/180.0D, 1
DEFSYSV, '!DRADEG', 180.0D/!DPI, 1

in my startup.pro.

Ken

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		the sky is falling down again By: R.Bauer on Tue, 30 January 2007 05:20
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