Angular Value in Europe 2

[chicopee]

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

 

[zekeman]

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

 

[GregLocock]

Are you referring to grad?


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[SomptingGuy]

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

- Steve

 

[tbuelna]

chicopee,

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

Regards,
Terry

 

[chicopee]

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

 

[MintJulep]

Only by the French artillery.

 

[tygerdawg]

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

http://www.bluetechnik.com

 

[MintJulep]

Grad is German for degree.

 

[CoryPad]

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

 

[gearguru]

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.

 

[tygerdawg]

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

TygerDawg
Blue Technik LLC
Virtuoso Robotics Engineering

http://www.bluetechnik.com

 

[eromlignod]

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

Don
Kansas City

 

[KENAT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grad_(angle)

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