{"id":13108,"date":"2015-11-14T19:16:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T19:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=13108"},"modified":"2015-11-14T19:16:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T19:16:51","slug":"spreadsheets-trig-functions-w-degrees-in-libreoffice-calc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-trig-functions-w-degrees-in-libreoffice-calc\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheets:  trig functions w\/ degrees in LibreOffice Calc"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor provides a brief hint about using trig functions of angles in degrees on LibreOffice Calc.<\/h1>\n<p>A person who doesn&#8217;t use a spreadsheet very often, probably needs it to work quickly and reliably the rare time they do use it.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s imagine you need sin30\u00b0 from LibreOffice Calc.\u00a0 Its default setting is radians, rather than degrees.  However, you can enter<\/p>\n<p>=sin(radians(30))<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, you get 0.5 as the answer.<\/p>\n<p>The inner function radians(30) takes the 30 degrees and converts it to radians, which is the calculator&#8217;s preference.  Then, sin is evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an easy trick, once you know it.<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor provides a brief hint about using trig functions of angles in degrees on LibreOffice Calc. A person who doesn&#8217;t use a spreadsheet very often, probably needs it to work quickly and reliably the rare time they do use &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-trig-functions-w-degrees-in-libreoffice-calc\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spreadsheets:  trig functions w\/ degrees in LibreOffice Calc<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1065],"tags":[1074,1195,1194],"class_list":["post-13108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-spreadsheets","tag-libreoffice-calc","tag-sin-in-degrees","tag-trig-functions-in-degrees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13108"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13119,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13108\/revisions\/13119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}