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RE: supplementary S.I. units

At 09:05 AM 9/25/98 -0400, Donald E. Simanek wrote:


sin(theta) and tan(theta) approach theta radians in the limit as theta
goes to zero. Not so if theta is measured in degrees.

Oops - don't think you meant that the way it came out. Sine and tangent
approach zero as theta approaches zero, no matter which set of units are
used for theta. The size of the domain of theta over which the
approximation works well is certainly better in radians!

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