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Re: Superman, was: Chicago P.D. TV series--computer usage [message #392551 is a reply to message #392548] Sun, 29 March 2020 15:06 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jorgen Grahn is currently offline  Jorgen Grahn
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On Sun, 2020-03-29, Quadibloc wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at 7:33:39 AM UTC-7, Thomas Koenig wrote:
>
>> There is the "gon" (400 degrees to the circle).
>
> I had never heard of the "gon", but I had heard of that unit being called the
> "grad". In fact, I think I even saw one pocket calculator that allowed you to
> switch the trig functions from degrees to radians or grads.

My 1980s calculators from Casio all had that: a deg/rad/grad button.
I never had reason to use the last one.

/Jorgen

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