Retina display math
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01-25-2014, 10:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-25-2014 10:10 PM by Joe Horn.)
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Retina display math
In the Wikipedia article about "Retina Display", in the second paragraph of the "Technical definition" section, it has this phrase (DEGREE MODE is assumed):
"twice the Tan of π divided by 360 (equal to half a degree in radians)" A few lines later it says: "Two times the Tan of π divided by 360 can also be approximated with π divided by 180 (= 0.01745)." Am I going senile, or are these statements mathematically whacked? According to all my HP calculators, in degree mode: 2*tan(pi)/360 = tan(pi)/180 = 0.000304923... 0.5 degrees = 0.008726646... radians pi/180 = 0.01745329... The article claims that the first two are equal, and that the first and third are approximately equal. But they're orders of magnitude apart. What's going on here? It's not a degree mode versus radian mode thing. In radian mode, the first is zero and the other two remain unchanged. EDIT: Oh, sorry, false alarm. They forgot to put parentheses around "pi divided by 360", and then it all works ok in radian mode, even though the article is entirely about degrees. Sheesh. <0|ɸ|0> -Joe- |
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Retina display math - Joe Horn - 01-25-2014 10:00 PM
RE: Retina display math - Han - 01-25-2014, 10:31 PM
RE: Retina display math - Joe Horn - 01-26-2014, 04:59 AM
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