C++ program to build a Trigonometric Calculator

Question

I am novice at programming in C++. I want to write a program using while loop which displays the trigonometric table for sin, cos and Tan. It takes angles in degrees with a difference of 5 and displays the result. This it what I tried,

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <cmath>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int num;
    cout<< "Angle   Sin     Cos     Tan"<<endl;
    cout<< "..........................."<<endl;
    num=0;

    while (num<=360)
    {
        cout <<setw(3)<<num<<"    "
            <<setw(3)<<setprecision(3)<<sin(num)<<"    "
            <<setw(3)<<setprecision(3)<<cos(num)<<"    "
            <<setw(5)<<setprecision(3)<<tan(num)<<endl;
        num=num+5;
    }
}

Unfortunately, I could not change radians into degrees in while loop and the display does not look promising even for radians. How can I resolve it ?

Answer 1

To convert degrees to radiant you have to multiply by pi and to divide by 180.0 :

#define M_PI 3.14159265358979323846    

int num = 0;
while (num<=360)
{
    double numRad = num * M_PI/180.0;

    std::cout <<std::setw(3)<<num<<"    "
        <<std::setprecision(3)<<std::fixed
        <<std::setw(6)<< std::sin( numRad ) <<"    "
        <<std::setw(6)<< std::cos( numRad ) <<"    ";
    if ( num != 90 && num != 270 )
        std::cout<<std::setw(6)<< std::tan( numRad ) <<std::endl;
    else
        std::cout<< "infinitely" <<std::endl;

    num=num+5;
}

To use constant M_PI see How to use the PI constant in C++

Answer 2

To convert degrees to radians, use numRad = M_PI / 180.0 where M_PI should be a constant that holds the value od Pi. If you do not have such a constant defined in a header file, just define it yourself, like #define PI 3.14159265

The functions sin, cos and tan always require arguments in radians.