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Angular Value in Europe
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Angular Value in Europe

Angular Value in Europe

(OP)
What is the current practice in Europe about an angular value for a right angle?  

RE: Angular Value in Europe

What's wrong with 90 degrees or pi/2 radians, and it is not so current.

RE: Angular Value in Europe

Mode 6 (GRA) is the mode on my fx-180P that NEVER gets used.

- Steve

RE: Angular Value in Europe

chicopee,

In Europe, like in the US, two flat, orthogonal surfaces are assumed implicitly normal or parallel, unless otherwise specified.

Regards,
Terry

RE: Angular Value in Europe

(OP)
OK, let me repeat the question, is grad still being used?

RE: Angular Value in Europe

Only by the French artillery.

RE: Angular Value in Europe

Good question, I'd like an answer also.  

I am working with a German KUKA robot and digging deep into the configuration files.  One set of config variables sets the software joint angle limits of the arm.  I can see from the value and the actual function of the arm that it is clearly a assignment of degrees.  But the German-language comments state "GRAD".  Confusing.

TygerDawg
Blue Technik LLC
Virtuoso Robotics Engineering
www.bluetechnik.com

RE: Angular Value in Europe

Grad is German for degree.

RE: Angular Value in Europe

What we call grad in English is called neugrad (new degree) in German.

RE: Angular Value in Europe

Grad (100 grads in right angle) was (and maybe still is) used in surveying at least in some countries in the Europe.
In Russian it means degree, same as in German.

RE: Angular Value in Europe

Mint/Cory:  Many thanks for the German lesson.  Less confused now, and that's a good thing.

TygerDawg
Blue Technik LLC
Virtuoso Robotics Engineering
www.bluetechnik.com

RE: Angular Value in Europe

Most new calculators don't even have grads on them anymore.  It's some sort of metric that never caught on.

Don
Kansas City

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