• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: What are units-of-measure? e.g., what's a "kilometer"?
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:44:04 -0400
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Roger L. Costello scripsit:

>     "a cartesian-coordinate property is equal to a polar-coordinate
>      property ...".  (If someone can complete this sentence I would be very
>      interested.  I have long forgotten how to convert coordinate systems.)

Google is your friend:

	x = r cos \theta
	y = r sin \theta

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan
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