alt Hacker NewsVery bold title! Turns are very convenient until you need to calculate a rate of change, as of course d/dx sin(2pi x) = 2pi cos(2pi x). Unfortunately this is a common enough problem that I will be sticking with the radian.
Very bold title! Turns are very convenient until you need to calculate a rate of change, as of course d/dx sin(2pi x) = 2pi cos(2pi x). Unfortunately this is a common enough problem that I will be sticking with the radian.
I feel like that approximates how I learned math. In geometry or trig you can use degrees or turns or any other unit, but almost never radians because that's harder write. As soon as you learn calculus, you switch to radians and never go back.