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Re: Why do we still use this terrible Babylonian hexadecimal system
From: Cliff Sojourner
Date: 2004 Nov 18, 17:48 -0800
From: Cliff Sojourner
Date: 2004 Nov 18, 17:48 -0800
George Huxtable wrote: > ... > >But will that work properly for negative angles? It seems to me that in >that case, the spreadsheet will give the right answer ONLY if, after >entering a negative value for degrees, you are then careful to enter >negative values for minutes and seconds also. > >If I'm right, then it's asking for trouble. > > as usual George, you are correct - the sign term is commutative across all terms. that's the first thing I checked in the VB code posted earlier; that one got it right too. Cliff
