Why is the part of this script doing the math.tan - work, not functioning properly?
It returns that "a" is equal to a negative number, when it is supposed to be 0.577, why?
How can I fix this?
My coding is as follows:
function CalculateArea(s,n) --// s = side-length, n = number of sides
local p = s*n
local a = math.tan(180/n) --//Supposed to return 30 when n == 6, but it doesn't :-/
print(a)
end
CalculateArea(10,6)
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Your issue is that math.tan is expecting an Angle in radians, not degrees.
You can convert between radians and degrees using math.rad (degrees -> radians) and math.deg (radians -> degrees), but based on your code it's just as easy to change the 180 degrees into math.pi radians:
function CalculateArea(s,n)
local p = s*n
local a = math.tan(math.pi/n)
print(a)
end
CalculateArea(10,6)
Thank you!
Okay Follow My instructions 1. put that script In the workspace folder then un arrow It.2 then put it in starter guide
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But the tangent of 180/6 is 0.57735026919