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Friday, May 10, 2019

PHP Numbers Doing Trigonometry in Degrees, Not Radians

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Doing Trigonometry in Degrees, Not Radians


Problem

You have numbers in degrees but want to use the trigonometric functions.

Solution

Use deg2rad() and rad2deg() on your input and output:

             $degree = 90;
             // cosine of 90 degrees is 0
             $cosine = cos(deg2rad($degree));


Discussion

By definition, 360 degrees is equal to 2Ï€ radians, so it’s easy to manually convert between the two formats. However, these functions use PHP’s internal value of Ï€, so you’re assured a high-precision answer. To access this number for other calculations, use the constant M_PI, which is 3.14159265358979323846.

There is no built-in support for gradians. This is considered a feature, not a bug.


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