The r (Radian Symbol) Command

We're glad you came by, but you might find what you're looking for elsewhere.

TI-Basic Developer is not the site it once was. While its information on commands and other calculator features remains almost second-to-none, its forum, archives, and even hosting service, Wikidot, have been decaying for years. The calculator community would love to see what you're working on, or help you in your next coding adventure, but TI-Basic Developer is no longer the place to do it.

Instead, you should head over to Cemetech (primarily American) or TI-Planet (primarily international). Both are active, well-established forums with their own archives, chatrooms, reference material, and abundant coding tools and resources. We'll see you there, we hope.

RADIAN.GIF

Command Summary

If the calculator is in degree mode, the r (radian) symbol converts a radian angle to degrees.

Command Syntax

angler

Menu Location

Press:

  1. 2nd ANGLE to access the angle menu.
  2. 3 to select r, or use arrows and ENTER.

Calculator Compatibility

TI-83/84/+/SE

Token Size

1 byte

NOTE: Due to the limitations of the wiki markup language, the r command on this page does not appear as it would on the calculator. See Wiki Markup Limitations for more information.

Normally, when the calculator is in degree mode, the trigonometric functions only return values calculated in degrees. With the r symbol you can have the angle evaluated as if in radian mode because it converts the angle into degrees.

One full rotation around a circle is 2π radians, which is equal to 360°. To convert an angle in radians to degrees you multiply by 180/π, and to convert from degrees to radians multiply by π/180.

In degree mode:

sin(π)        \\sine of Pi degrees
    .0548036651
sin(π^^r)
    0

In radian mode:
sin(π)
    0
sin(π^^r)
    0        \\There's no difference when in radians

Optimization

When you only call the trig function once in a program and want it calculated in radians, instead of changing the mode you can just use ° to save one-byte (the newline from using the command Radian)

:Radian
:sin(X)
can be
:sin(X^^r)

Related Commands

  • ° (degree symbol)

.

Unless otherwise stated, the content of this page is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License.