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[_] Maths foolishness

Edward Ross underscore at rosstech.biz
Tue Apr 1 15:10:44 BST 2008

I don't know flash - but the reason you are getting cos45 = 0.52 is 
because the input units are set to radians not degrees. If you do 
cos(Pi/4) you will get the 0.71 you are expecting.

Regards,

Ed.

s'unya wrote:
> Ar'noon,
> 
> I am having Math foolery in flash; for some reason to flash cos45 =
> 0.52532198881773 instead of 0.70710678118654752440084436210485 and tan45 =
> 1.6... instead of just 1. I haven't even the foggiest what might cause such
> discrepancies. Anybody?
>