01-29-2026, 12:51 PM
Personally I think going Counter Clockwise with start and end angles is Inconsistent with Trig Functions that go clockwise thus is bad foundation to build from. Even Terry followed CW direction, if I recall correctly. Though his 0 degrees is due North which is even more Clock Wise but less math convention wise.
But this direction would make old code compatible and continue to make learning Sin Cos that much more confusing along with sorting out radians and degrees from start. And makes learning Tangents and Arc Tangents for finding line directions hell because that is next step up with Trig functions.
If you makeover the arcs then make them consistent with Trig functions. Bad enough Basic screen graphic y axis increases going down. That was a wrong move that caused the illogical Counterclockwise direction to begin with, a half assed lazy solution making Basics an unpopular tool for math and engineer types.
Like QWERTY keyboard standard, bad conventions are hard to over come.
Just an opinion from a low level binary operator.
But this direction would make old code compatible and continue to make learning Sin Cos that much more confusing along with sorting out radians and degrees from start. And makes learning Tangents and Arc Tangents for finding line directions hell because that is next step up with Trig functions.
If you makeover the arcs then make them consistent with Trig functions. Bad enough Basic screen graphic y axis increases going down. That was a wrong move that caused the illogical Counterclockwise direction to begin with, a half assed lazy solution making Basics an unpopular tool for math and engineer types.
Like QWERTY keyboard standard, bad conventions are hard to over come.
Just an opinion from a low level binary operator.
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