Solved: what is wrong with this LatLong->Distance code? A Trigonometry "feature".

[Guenter Schink]

(10-13-2016 05:31 PM)Tim Wessman Wrote:  .

Anyway, I think you have your answer about the bug. If you want to be completely independent of your setting, run HMS-> (doesn't matter if you are are in HMS or not, just sets the flag on the real number input) then D->R.


I'm wondering now though if HMS-> and ->HMS should also handle angular unit objects directly so something like ->HMS(1.5_rad) would return 85°56′37.20937″ ... thoughts anyone?

Contrary to my previous statement, with a question mark though, I would no longer consider this to be a bug. In my opinion it is a feature, perhaps needs to be stated clearer somewhere! But where? And a, yet to be implemented, D->R command should work regardless of DMS or HR format, avoiding these ambiguities.

And I think your proposal for ->HMS () would be valuable enhancement.

Günter

Don't forget to implement newRPL