[ODE] XODE - should angles be in degrees or radians?

Steve Baker sjbaker1 at airmail.net
Fri Mar 19 07:54:50 MST 2004


Nate W wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 cledwith at d-a-s.com wrote:
> 
> 
>>I would just _expect_ that the measure was in radians, because it's
>>natural for a physics library to use radians, not degrees. And
>>especially if I'd read the ODE docs and saw that every function took
>>radians! Why require a conversion of a value brought in from a config
>>file before ODE can use it?
> 
> 
> That's persuasive - I hereby vote for radians instead. :-)

Yeah - very pursuasive - I reluctantly switch positions to radians also.


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