Dividing degrees by Pi - Must I enter 3.14159 instead of Ctl+Shift+p ? - Messages
#1 Posted: 11/14/2020 4:50:47 PM
I was doing a simple illustration and realized SMath wouldn't let me divide360 degrees by 2 * Pi if I entered Pi via Ctl+Shift+p...
So, I'm guessing Ctl+Shift+p is interpreted by the program a pi radians and not simply a number... right?
Or did I miss something?
Thanks for any help.
So, I'm guessing Ctl+Shift+p is interpreted by the program a pi radians and not simply a number... right?
Or did I miss something?
Thanks for any help.
#2 Posted: 11/14/2020 5:07:55 PM
I can divide it with Ctrl+Shift+P.
If I had wrote 360 instead of 360 degrees, then result would be 57.2958.
Either way it is degrees or not, it can be divided.
If you are doing exactly what you have informed, nothing should be wrong.
Regards
If I had wrote 360 instead of 360 degrees, then result would be 57.2958.
Either way it is degrees or not, it can be divided.
If you are doing exactly what you have informed, nothing should be wrong.
Regards
#3 Posted: 11/14/2020 5:50:34 PM
I was doing a simple illustration and realized SMath wouldn't let me divide360 degrees by 2 * Pi if I entered Pi via Ctl Shift p...
try 360°/2*pi ... pi from p+CtrlG
#4 Posted: 11/14/2020 5:54:21 PM
First, how did you post the animation? Is that an animated gif?
Was it a screen capture & if so with what software?
Second... and it took me a minute after I looked at your cool animation...
I guess I expected 2 * pi to be ~6.28 unless I specified a unit...
That was the basis of my question...
As you illustrated entering 360 degrees / (2*pi) yields 1.
If 2*pi were considered as simply a number then I would have expected the results to be 57.2598.
No problem either way just wanted to ask.
Thanks for your help.
Was it a screen capture & if so with what software?
Second... and it took me a minute after I looked at your cool animation...
I guess I expected 2 * pi to be ~6.28 unless I specified a unit...
That was the basis of my question...
As you illustrated entering 360 degrees / (2*pi) yields 1.
If 2*pi were considered as simply a number then I would have expected the results to be 57.2598.
No problem either way just wanted to ask.
Thanks for your help.
#5 Posted: 11/14/2020 6:13:01 PM
I was doing a simple illustration and realized SMath wouldn't let me divide360 degrees by 2 * Pi if I entered Pi via Ctl Shift p...
try 360°/2*pi ... pi from p+CtrlG
I still get 1 instead of the expected 57.2958
Maybe I'm entering degrees wrong as in both answers I see the degree symbol...
But when I enter 360 followed by deg it doesn't display the degree symbol...
it displays 360 dot deg
How do you get the degree symbol instead of "deg"
Thanks
#6 Posted: 11/14/2020 6:35:32 PM
It is an animated gif.
I use linux, I had recorded the portion of screen with simplescreenrecorder. SSR is actually a front-end (gui) for ffmpeg or libav.
Then I had wrote a single line command to convert mp4 to gif. This is also an ffmpeg command actually.
you can record your screen with Fraps under windows. ffmpeg should have also windows builds. I was using it back then.
I do enter the percentage character (shift+5 for my Turkish keyboard, should be shift+5 for US also) then select degree symbol from the inline menu. you can see that partially at previously provided gif. maybe there is a simple method but this is how I enter it always.
deg should work also, if it is not blue colored when you enter it then it is not considered as a unit. when you wrote "deg" inline menu appears (units and commands combobox) then you should press tab key or select the unit with mouse. I think you are writing deg and trying to divide it with 2 pi. that "deg" is not degree unit keyword or symbol if it is colored black, you are simply creating a new unit which is named deg.
I use linux, I had recorded the portion of screen with simplescreenrecorder. SSR is actually a front-end (gui) for ffmpeg or libav.
Then I had wrote a single line command to convert mp4 to gif. This is also an ffmpeg command actually.
you can record your screen with Fraps under windows. ffmpeg should have also windows builds. I was using it back then.
I do enter the percentage character (shift+5 for my Turkish keyboard, should be shift+5 for US also) then select degree symbol from the inline menu. you can see that partially at previously provided gif. maybe there is a simple method but this is how I enter it always.
deg should work also, if it is not blue colored when you enter it then it is not considered as a unit. when you wrote "deg" inline menu appears (units and commands combobox) then you should press tab key or select the unit with mouse. I think you are writing deg and trying to divide it with 2 pi. that "deg" is not degree unit keyword or symbol if it is colored black, you are simply creating a new unit which is named deg.
#7 Posted: 11/14/2020 7:13:25 PM
I still get 1 instead of the expected 57.2958
#8 Posted: 11/14/2020 9:54:58 PM
OK, I think my trouble is with that rascally cursor :-)
I think I have it now.
Thanks guys!
I think I have it now.
Thanks guys!
#9 Posted: 11/15/2020 3:21:48 PM
Was it a screen capture
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