Given an angle in radians, returns the corresponding angle in degrees.
DEGREES ( numeric_expression )
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numeric_expression
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An expression of the exact numeric or approximate numeric data type categories, or of types that are implicitly convertible to float.
Returns the same type as numeric_expression, except for the following expressions.
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Specified expression
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Return type
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tinyint, smallint
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int
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real/float
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float
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Nonnumeric types that can be implicitly converted to float
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float
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The following example returns the degree value of various angles expressed in radians.
CREATE TABLE "Degrees" ("PI()/2" float, "PI()/3" float, "PI()/4" float);
INSERT INTO "Degrees" VALUES (DEGREES(PI()/2), DEGREES(PI()/3), DEGREES(PI()/4));
SELECT * FROM "Degrees";