DEGREES scalar function

The DEGREES function returns the number of degrees of the argument, which is an angle, expressed in radians.

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The schema is SYSIBM.

The argument must be an expression that returns the value of any built-in numeric data type that is not DECFLOAT. If the argument is not a double precision floating-point number, it is converted to one for processing by the function.

The result of the function is a double precision floating-point number.

The result can be null; if the argument is null, the result is the null value.

Example: Assume that host variable HRAD is a DOUBLE with a value of 3.1415926536. The following statement returns a double precision floating-point number with an approximate value of 180.0. 
   SELECT DEGREES(:HRAD)
     FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1;