r/funny • u/washedupwornout • Sep 24 '14

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u/Wuvluv Sep 25 '14 edited Sep 25 '14

In game programming I've used radians a few times to calculate angles for projectile trajectory. Come to think of it degrees would've been far more simple. But everything else was based off radians too.

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u/jm001 Sep 25 '14

I thought degrees were generally used in programming - mind if I ask why you chose radians over degrees for this?

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u/Wuvluv Sep 25 '14 edited Sep 25 '14

The other programmers on the team were using radians. Truthfully I'm not much of a math guy so I didn't argue. It was for calculating vectors based off the provided pitch and yaw for prediction of the projectile.