On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 13:15 +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
Neil Mitchell wrote:
For a start, its probably a good idea to mention that cos is an abbreviation of cosine (most people will know, but its handy to state it). Secondly, and much more importantly, it should state whether these measurements are in degrees or radians. It should also state things like acos is the inverse of cos - its been a while since I last used trig and I had to look it up!!!
I imagine the laziness here was because these all match their names in the traditional libc, accessable via manpages.
And, uh, well, the Report... except, entertainingly, the Report doesn't actually define most of these except by reference.
You may not consider that an excuse :)
Ultimately, as others have said, it would be nice to have reference documentation all in one place and one format.