[CLUE-Tech] OpenOffice Math Functions Incorrect?

Jed S. Baer thag at frii.com
Fri Dec 27 17:37:58 MST 2002


Hi Folks.

Anyone else seeing this?

Using OpenOffice scalc, enter the following into a cell: =TAN(45)

The tangent of 45 is 1 (according to my TI calculator). scalc says it's
1.62. So, I fired up the old windows box, and tried it using Excel -- same
result.

So, what's up with that?

jed
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