On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Philip Yorke wrote:
> Dear Derivers,
>
> How comfortable are you all with radians being DERIVE's default, rather
> than degrees? Do you prefer it that way? Is it an obstacle to more ready
> acceptance of DERIVE at pre-calculus school level? One of our customers
> suggested this was so and I'd be interested to hear what you think.
>
> Cheers
> Philip Yorke
Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way! The first thing I do when I
pick up a scientific calculator is make sure it's in radians. Of course, I
used to do signal processing for a living :-)
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