DEGREES
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The function DEGREES converts radians into degrees.
This function takes a single as input. It parses that Number as an angle in radians and returns another Number: the equivalent angle in degrees.
number (required, type: number) A number specifying an angle in degrees.
degrees (type: number) The number of radians corresponding to the angle that was given in degrees.
The following example converts two radians into the equivalent number of degrees:
As a unit, the radian is derived from the ratio of the arc length to the radius of a circle, and thus it often makes sense to express radians as multiples of pi. (Many "neat" angles are expressed nicely as multiples of pi – the quarter turn, 90°, is 0.5π radians, and a complete rotation, 360°, is 2π radians.) The following example converts 2π radians – expressed by multiplying two by the output of the function – into the equivalent number of degrees: