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From: "Steven G. Kargl" <sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Angle Units For Trig Functions
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:14:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:26:59 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 05:35:25 -0000 (UTC), Steven G. Kargl wrote:
> 
>> % gfcx -o z a.f90 && ./z 0.500000000      0.500089288
>> 
>> One of these values is exact, and one of these raises FE_INEXACT.
> 
> Does it work for 29° and 31° as well? What’s so special about 30°?

Really?  This is high school trig.

For units of degree, mathematically sin(30) = 1/2, exactly!.
sin(30+n*360) = 1/2 is also exact.

-- 
steve