Roger Whitehead (rgw at office-futures.com) wrote:
: > Can anyone tell me how to convert degrees slope to percent slope?
: Degrees of slope/90 degrees x 100%.
How so? A 45-degree slope is 100 percent (100 feet rise per 100 feet run).
By your formula 45/90*100 = 50%.
A 90-degree slope is infinite percent (infinite rise in 100 feet horizontal
run), not 100%.
A better solution is to multiply the tangent of the slope angle by 100 .
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