[Proj] degree to radian conversions
Charles Karney
charles.karney at sri.com
Thu Aug 13 15:46:03 EST 2015
I just submitted a pull request for proj.4 to correct the values of the
constants used in degree/radian conversions. The important change was
to use
.0174532925199432958
instead of
.0174532925199433
as the value of pi/180 used to convert degrees to radians in dmstor.c.
The new value is substantial closer to the true value...
cos(90 * .0174532925199432958) = 6.1e-17
cos(90 * .0174532925199433) = -3.8e-16
Needless to say, some of the tests now fail. Particularly because
proj.4 used to round 90 deg to an illegal latitude (larger than pi/2).
However the changes for the healpix checks are inexplicably large.
It would be good if someone could figure out why the healpix results
change so much.
--Charles
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