What I did, surprisingly, works, but is not the algorithm that is returned whenever I have searched for how to do it.
The closest thing that I have seen that explains what I did is in this stackexchange answer: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1385082. It shows that you can get the same answer using the formula that I used, but it is stating that it's for a simpler problem than what is being asked.
Something in the back of my head though is maybe I'm onto something and I found a shortcut? The only problem that I have found is that the way that I am dividing the value within the sin and cos functions is not aligning so that I can feed it in a value between 0-360 to get all of the degrees.
So the article needs to be updated. Either I research and fully formulate the algorithm that I used OR I correct the article to use the math answer that I'm finding (in the above link).
What I did, surprisingly, works, but is not the algorithm that is returned whenever I have searched for how to do it.
The closest thing that I have seen that explains what I did is in this stackexchange answer: https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1385082. It shows that you can get the same answer using the formula that I used, but it is stating that it's for a simpler problem than what is being asked.
Something in the back of my head though is maybe I'm onto something and I found a shortcut? The only problem that I have found is that the way that I am dividing the value within the sin and cos functions is not aligning so that I can feed it in a value between 0-360 to get all of the degrees.
So the article needs to be updated. Either I research and fully formulate the algorithm that I used OR I correct the article to use the math answer that I'm finding (in the above link).