Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

stephen_at_nomail.com
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: 1 Mar 2005 21:39:23 GMT

In sci.math Albert <albertwagner@cox.net> wrote:
: Daryl McCullough wrote:
:> Lester Zick says...
:>
:>
:>>The choice of most natural depends on who's using it for what. People
:>>who actually have to use angles prefer degrees and a lot of them.
:>
:>
:> That's what I meant. If you are working with the analytical properties
:> of trigonometric functions, radians are most natural.
:>
:>
:>>Coming left to a course 120 degrees strikes me as likely an awkward
:>>construction in terms of radians or diams.
:>
:>
:> 120 degrees is the same as 2/3 pi radians. There is nothing awkward
:> about that unless you try to write it down in decimal form. But why
:> do that? 2/3 pi is a perfectly clear real number.

: And what is 135 degrees? (Keep in mind that you are under attack
: by enemy warships)

What is 1 radian? Keep in mind you are under attack by enemy
warships.

Stephen

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