RE: supplementary S.I. units

[Charlie Crummer <ccrummer@cats.ucsc.edu>]

> On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, George Spagna wrote:
>
> > 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!
>
> Yep, careless use of the words "in the limit". Should have said "As theta
> gets small.
>
> 	-- Donald

And "small" meaning, "You give me an epsilon below which you want the
difference between theta and sin(theta) to be and I'll give you a theta.
You tell me what units you want."

	Charlie

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