Degrees to Radians

by vckicks on Jun 16th, 2008

The .Net Framework uses by default radians in its trigonometry calculations. Find out how to convert degrees to radians to use with C#

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private double DegreeToRadian(double angle)
{
return Math.PI * angle / 180.0;
}
 
//Get the Cosine of a 45 degree angle
double angle = Math.Cos(DegreeToRadian(45));

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Nov 21st, 2008

Re: Degrees to Radians

What about 45°30'10''?
Angles don't always come in whole parts.

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Nov 22nd, 2008

Re: Degrees to Radians

If the angle isn't whole use a decimal point (45.352343). If you want to convert something like 45°30'10'' to a decimal representation then that would be a different function to write.

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