On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:11:51 -0600, "Michael Mattias"
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>>.... It's also not clear why the OP
>>would insist on Arc-Cosine and Arc-Sine being intrinsic functions,
>>since they're easily calculated from Arc-Tan (ATN in most BASICs).
>>Similarly, DEG and RAD are equivalent to multiplication by 180/PI and
>>PI/180 respectively.
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>1. Not thinking about it; instead just blindly trying to effect a
>verb-for-verb, function-for-function ****t.
>2. Not paying attention in geometry class
>3. Sloth
4. Presumed loss of precision:
"Now I know that you can write a DefFN for ARCOS, ARCSIN, DEG, and RAD;
however, you wind up loosing a point of precision and that I really can't
afford."
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