You can save some messing around with,     my $angle = atan2 $x2-$x1, $y2-$y1; I think that short-circuiting that is premature optimization, and may be an actual pessimization since FPU's do atan2 atomicly. Atan2 knows what quadrant the angle is in from the signs of its arguments, so you can save checking all those cases. Also, stick with radian measure except possibly for printed display.

Those together remove the need for Math::Trig.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: Code refactoring: simple trig, but it's been so long. by Zaxo
in thread Code refactoring: simple trig, but it's been so long. by revdiablo

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