standard trig functions for degrees ?

Henry Baker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general
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A number of computer languages -- e.g., Fortran -- support trig functions over degrees -- e.g., sind(x), cosd(x), tand(x), asind(x), etc.

I know it's "trivial", but could Maxima please go ahead a define standardly the trig functions over degrees?  We're talking about about increasing the core system at most by perhaps 1K bytes !

I don't mind the names sind, cosd, tand, but wouldn't it be more intuitive to have the inverse functions named dasin, dacos, datan, etc. ?
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