I have 2 questions:<br>
1) I just noticed that the trig functions in Qbasic are not accurate or correct. For example the true sine of 45 degrees is .707... but when I ask that sin(45) be displayed it gives .850... Why is this? Am I doing something wrong, or using incorrect syntax? Is this a bug in Qbasic?<br>
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2) If question #1 is answered/solved, then what is<br>
the correct syntax or format to get the inverse displayed? (From .707 etc.. back to 45 degrees)?<br>
A book that I have on Qbasic says that the command ATN is available. This should mean that if I enter ATN(.4567) for example, the displayed result should be 24.546... (answer in decimal degrees).<br>
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Thanks for any help you can give. --- Lew<br>
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: ...Is this a bug in Qbasic?<br>
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It also shows as .850 in QuickBasic 4.5, VBDOS Pro, VB3 and VB5 Pro. Calc.exe does show .707, though. If it's a bug in QB, then it's apparently a bug in all of Microsoft's basic languages.<br>
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: A book that I have on Qbasic says that the command ATN is available. This should mean that if I enter ATN(.4567) for example, the displayed result should be 24.546... (answer in decimal degrees).<br>
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You need to convert ATN's output from rads to degrees. <b>* (pi / 180)</b> You can get pi using <b>4 * ATN(1)</b>.<br>
Do you need a specific function to get from Atn to Sin? VB5's help file has a decent sized list (20) of Derived Math Functions dealing with Sin, Cos, Tan and their 1/x functions.

: : ...Is this a bug in Qbasic?
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: It also shows as .850 in QuickBasic 4.5, VBDOS Pro, VB3 and VB5 Pro. Calc.exe does show .707, though. If it's a bug in QB, then it's apparently a bug in all of Microsoft's basic languages.
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: : A book that I have on Qbasic says that the command ATN is available. This should mean that if I enter ATN(.4567) for example, the displayed result should be 24.546... (answer in decimal degrees).
: :
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: You need to convert ATN's output from rads to degrees. <b>* (pi / 180)</b> You can get pi using <b>4 * ATN(1)</b>.
: Do you need a specific function to get from Atn to Sin? VB5's help file has a decent sized list (20) of Derived Math Functions dealing with Sin, Cos, Tan and their 1/x functions.
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Hi,
Try this program

pi# = 3.141592653589793# '# makes the numbers double precision
dtor# = pi# / 180# 'degrees to radians conversion factor

s# = SIN(45# * dtor#)
PRINT s#

The value is pretty close.

Dick

All trig functions are in radians.

test it with:

pi# = 3.141592653589793

Print sin(pi# / 4)