[Python-ideas] Trigonometry in degrees

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/10/2018 7:53 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 5:41 PM Terry Reedy 
> <tjreedy at udel.edu 
> <mailto:tjreedy at udel.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     On 6/10/2018 10:44 AM, Stephan Houben wrote:
> 
>      > I would suggest that compatibility with a major Python library
>     such as
>      > SciPy is more important than compatibility
>      > with other programming languages.
>      >
>      > I would go even further and argue that scipy.special.sindg and its
>      > friends cosdg and tandg
>      > can serve as the reference implementation for this proposal.
> 
>     Or we could decide that we don't need to duplicate scipy.
> 
> 
> Copying scipy's and numpy's interface makes vectorizing code a lot 
> simpler.  tensorflow also initially made the mistake of varying from 
> numpy's interface only to then deprecate the variations and adopt the 
> standard.

What I meant is to not add functions that already exist in scipy.  Core 
devs do not need the burden of keeping up with whatever improvements are 
made to the scipy functions.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy