## Copyright (C) 2013 Carnë Draug <carandraug@octave.org>
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {@var{km} =} deg2km (@var{deg})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{km} =} deg2km (@var{deg}, @var{radius})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {@var{km} =} deg2km (@var{deg}, @var{sphere})
## Convert angle to distance.
##
## Calculates the distances @var{km} in a sphere with @var{radius} (also in
## kilometers) for the angles @var{deg}.  If unspecified, radius defaults to
## 6371, the mean radius of Earth.
##
## Alternatively, @var{sphere} can be one of "sun", "mercury", "venus", "earth",
## "moon", "mars", "jupiter", "saturn", "uranus", "neptune", or "pluto", in
## which case radius will be set to that object mean radius.
##
## @seealso{km2deg}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: Alexander Barth <barth.alexander@gmail.com>

function km = deg2km (deg, radius = "earth")
  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
    print_usage();
  elseif (ischar (radius))
    radius = spheres_radius (radius);
  elseif (! isnumeric (radius) || ! isscalar (radius))
    error ("deg2km: RADIUS must be a numeric scalar");
  endif
  km = (deg * pi * radius) / 180;
endfunction

%!assert (km2deg (deg2km (10)), 10)
%!assert (km2deg (deg2km (10, 80), 80), 10)
%!assert (km2deg (deg2km (10, "pluto"), "pluto"), 10)
