Degree¶

Status: Experimental

present and registered, but lightly documented and not yet covered by dedicated tests.

Description¶

Degree
    gives the number of radians in one degree, with numerical value
    Pi/180 (~= 0.0174533).
Multiply by Degree to convert degrees to radians, so 30 Degree is 30
degrees. It is a mathematical constant: it has attributes Constant and
Protected, NumericQ[Degree] is True, and D[Degree, x] is 0. N[Degree,
prec] evaluates it to any precision.

Examples¶

No verified examples yet for this function.

Implementation notes¶

Attributes Constant, Protected. `Attributes[Degree] = {Constant,

Attributes: Constant, Protected.

Implementation status¶

Experimental — present and registered, but lightly documented and not yet covered by dedicated tests.

References¶

Source: src/info.c
Specification: docs/spec/builtins/mathematical-constants.md

Notes & additional examples¶

Worked examples¶

In[1]:= N[Degree]
Out[1]= 0.0174533

In[1]:= Sin[30 Degree] // N
Out[1]= 0.5

In[1]:= N[Tan[60 Degree], 40]
Out[1]= 1.7320508075688772935274463415058723669427

In[1]:= N[Degree, 40]
Out[1]= 0.017453292519943295769236907684886127134428

Notes¶

Degree is the mathematical constant Pi/180, the number of radians in one degree. Multiply an angle by it to convert degrees to radians, so 30 Degree is the radian measure of 30 degrees and Sin[30 Degree] numericalises to 0.5. It carries the Constant and Protected attributes (D[Degree, x] is 0), is recognised by NumericQ, and evaluates to arbitrary precision under N[Degree, prec] — the last example agrees with N[Pi/180, 40] digit for digit.