The perl sin and cos functions take arguments in the form of radians (rather than degrees). 180 degrees = Pi radians so both radians and degrees are measures of angle. You question has no answer per se as sin and cos do not return values that can be expressed as any measure of angle like radians or degrees. Hopefully this code covers what you want. The asin, acos and atan functions return radians and are the inverse functions of sin, cos and tan respectively: 

my $pi = 3.14159265358979;

sub deg_to_rad { ($_[0]/180) * $pi }
sub rad_to_deg { ($_[0]/$pi) * 180 }
sub asin { atan2($_[0], sqrt(1 - $_[0] * $_[0])) }
sub acos { atan2( sqrt(1 - $_[0] * $_[0]), $_[0] ) }
sub tan  { sin($_[0]) / cos($_[0])  }
sub atan { atan2($_[0],1) };



print 'sin 30 degrees is ', sin(deg_to_rad(30)), "\n";
print 'inverse sin 0.5 is ', rad_to_deg(asin(0.5)), ' degrees';

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In reply to Re: How can I get sine, cosine, and tangent to return values in degrees? by tachyon
in thread How can I get sine, cosine, and tangent to return values in degrees? by dooberwah

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