Arcsin Object help

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Matthew

Hey all

I need to work out the the arcsin (sin-1) of an incoming number but it doesn't appear to be working.

For example I have a float of the value 0.2 coming into the arcsin object and the answer should be 11.5, but it's outputting something completely different.

Any ideas?
Thanks, Matthew

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David Beaudry

A patch would help, but my guess is you want to see degrees but are getting radians? It's pretty easy to convert...google can lead the way :)

David

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Matthew

Hey David, that worked thanks a lot!

For those that want to convert radians to degrees, the number went into the 'asin' object and then the output went3 into an expression multiplying the number of radians by 180 which was then divided by 3.1415 (Pi)

Thank again, Matthew

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Timo Rozendal

Max Patch
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I think you are expecting the wrong values, it seems to work fine, to prove that asin is the inverse of sin, simply connect the two:

the input of asin is not in radians nor in degrees, the output is in radians though

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here is another proof that works fine, but now the other way around an in degrees:

EDIT, sorry, I didn't understand it was already solved...