Radians or Degrees?

[Diamond187]

When doing trigonometry (ie. sinx, cosx, tanx) do you use radians or degrees for angles?

[DeRailer]

doesnt that suck

im only in geometry

guess i wont vote

[kevinok]

I use degrees.

[Hypersolidsnake]

Well, I haven't learned either yet, Oh wait, I've learned dgrees, so I use them, then :P

[Liokae]

It's always possible to go by the mathmatical standard, of course; degress for geometric trig, radians for algebraic trig.

[Vagrant]

Personally, degrees.

[trafman]

well i'm only 13 so i dont know this stuff yet! ( i was the 1 who put i dont know :))

[pwrslyd]

I use radians whenever possible...they are just so much easier to work with...

[Leperkawn]

I mostly use radians, but like Liokae said, it depends on what I am doing, geometic or algerbraic trig.

[Afterburner]

uh, RADIANS, dudez, cuz itz be like, so much eazier, yaknow?

lol, but seriously, radians are logical. degrees ain't.

[TThomaso]

as the ppl say it's more of what ur doin, after all radians may be easier to divide into, but then again, you were first taught to use degrees weren't u

a short story of why we have 360 degress in a circle and measure time in 60's not 100's

the babylonians worked in base 60, it divided into lots of numbers, and made sums easier (to them at least), after all it meant big long hards sums using numbers 17 digits long were ok, but u would go nuts because these numbers were up to 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that's 3 with 28-0's after it,
and so they couldn't use 400 radians as this didn't go into 60 nicely so they used 360 degress and of course that's why we also now use 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour, they invented it!

[The First]

Interesting... base 60?! Damn... I have trouble with things like base 8... but 60?...