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Confusion with degrees and radians #18

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* @return {number} degrees in radians

"Degrees" and "radians" are units of measure, hence "degrees in radians" is a nonsense, just like saying "centimeters in meters"; it should be instead "angle in radians" or "angle in degrees".

Also the function name is misleading: "dmsToDeg" should apparently return a valule in degrees, instead it returns radians; a proper name should be "dmsToDecimal" (x° x' x"" becomes x.xxxxx°).

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