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Matt
Matt

Reputation: 249

Conversion from radians to degrees

I am trying to do a simple trigonometric calculation in C++. The following is an example of the problem I am having with this. As far as I know, C++ works in radians, not degrees. So conversion from radians to degrees should be a simple case of multiplying by 180 and dividing by pi. A simple test is tan(45), which should equate 1. The following program produces a value of 92.8063 however...

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

#include <math.h>

int main(){
    double a,b;
    a = tan(45);
    b = a * 180 / 3.14159265;
    cout << b;
    return 0;
}

What is wrong?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 82755

Answers (4)

Richard Schneider
Richard Schneider

Reputation: 35464

You must pass radians to the tan function. Also degrees to radian is wrong.

 a = tan(45 * 3.14159265 / 180.);

Upvotes: 4

Oliver Charlesworth
Oliver Charlesworth

Reputation: 272802

The angle is the input to tan. So you want:

a = 45 * 3.141592653589793 / 180.0;
b = tan(a);
cout << b << endl;

Upvotes: 6

Andreas Rejbrand
Andreas Rejbrand

Reputation: 109158

Tan accepts an angle, and returns a quotient. It is not the other way around. You want

a = tan(45*3.14159265/180); // Now a is equal to 1.

Upvotes: 2

Mark Ransom
Mark Ransom

Reputation: 308530

You're doing it backwards. Don't apply the formula to the output of tan, apply it to the parameter.

Also you'll want to multiply by pi and divide by 180, not vice versa.

Upvotes: 14

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