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Default Sine Bar Chart?

Tim Wescott wrote:

RBnDFW wrote:
Anyone got a simple chart or spreadsheet for a 5" sine bar?


Isn't it just angle = arcsin(offset/5")?


Tim, it is a sine bar. Not an arcsin bar.

I love Easy Calc that I run on my palm pda.

http://easycalc.sourceforge.net

sin(30)*5 returns the expected 2.5 as long as I tell it to use degrees and not radians or
gradians.

Wes