[CLUE-Tech] OpenOffice Math Functions Incorrect?

[Tom Poindexter]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 05:37:58PM -0700, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> 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?


looks like scalc is operating in radians, not degrees.  perhaps there's a
setting to switch to degrees, or you'll have to scale your results by

  360 / (2*pi) ~= 57.2957795131


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