DEGREES
Supported, behaves as documentedCategory: Math and trigonometry · Last tested 2026-09-01
Real compatibility results for the DEGREES function: executed in Excel for the web, Google Sheets and LibreOffice Calc, with desktop Excel behavior from Microsoft’s official documentation (we do not run desktop Excel — Excel for the web is a different application and is executed separately). Syntax and links to that documentation are below.
Support matrix
| Engine | Documented | Live-tested | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Excel (desktop) | Yes | No — documented only | n/a |
| Excel for the web | — | Yes (recalc, 2026-09-01) | Supported, behaves as documented |
| Google Sheets | Yes | Yes (Drive import, 2026-08-29) | Supported, behaves as documented |
| LibreOffice Calc | Yes | Yes (25.8.7.3, 2026-07-29) | Supported, behaves as documented |
LibreOffice version history
We executed the same test cases under each LibreOffice release to show exactly when DEGREES’s support changed — not documentation claims, real results.
| LibreOffice version | Verdict | Tested |
|---|---|---|
| 24.2.0.3 | Supported, behaves as documented | 2026-08-29 |
| 24.8.7.2 | Supported, behaves as documented | 2026-08-29 |
| 25.2.0.3 | Supported, behaves as documented | 2026-08-29 |
| 25.8.7.3 | Supported, behaves as documented | 2026-07-29 |
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precision or a blank result. Where the disagreement is explained by that
round trip we report it as inconclusive rather than as a Sheets behavior.
Google documents this function, so the result is not evidence of
missing support. See the methodology page
for the full caveat and the planned re-run with plain function names.
Executed test cases
Excel for the web (executed 2026-09-01 via OneDrive recalculation)
These values come from Excel for the web, not from desktop Excel. They are two different implementations of the calculation engine, and this run measured only the web one: the corpus was uploaded to OneDrive as .xlsx, recalculated by Excel for the web on open, and downloaded again for readback. Excel for the web is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so the run is identified by its date. Where a value here disagrees with the Expected column — which is Microsoft’s documentation of the desktop product — we cannot tell you whether the web engine diverges from the desktop one or the documentation is wrong about both, because we do not run desktop Excel.
| Formula | Description | Result | Expected | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| =DEGREES(PI()) | Pi radians is exactly a half turn, i.e. 180 degrees | 180 | 180 | Matched |
| =DEGREES(1) | Converting 1 radian to degrees | 57.29577951308232 | 57.29577951308232 | Matched |
| =DEGREES(0) | Zero radians is zero degrees | 0 | 0 | Matched |
| =DEGREES(-PI()/2) | Negative radians convert to negative degrees (a quarter turn backward) | -90 | -90 | Matched |
Google Sheets (executed 2026-08-29 via Drive import)
Google Sheets is a rolling service with no pinnable version, so this run is identified by its date. The corpus was imported to Drive as .xlsx, recalculated by Sheets, and exported back for readback.
| Formula | Description | Result | Expected | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| =DEGREES(PI()) | Pi radians is exactly a half turn, i.e. 180 degrees | 180 | 180 | Matched |
| =DEGREES(1) | Converting 1 radian to degrees | 57.29577951 | 57.29577951308232 | Inconclusive |
| =DEGREES(0) | Zero radians is zero degrees | 0 | 0 | Matched |
| =DEGREES(-PI()/2) | Negative radians convert to negative degrees (a quarter turn backward) | -90 | -90 | Matched |
LibreOffice Calc 25.8.7.3 (tested 2026-07-29)
| Formula | Description | Result | Expected | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| =DEGREES(PI()) | Pi radians is exactly a half turn, i.e. 180 degrees | 180 | 180 | Matched |
| =DEGREES(1) | Converting 1 radian to degrees | 57.2957795130823 | 57.29577951308232 | Matched |
| =DEGREES(0) | Zero radians is zero degrees | 0 | 0 | Matched |
| =DEGREES(-PI()/2) | Negative radians convert to negative degrees (a quarter turn backward) | -90 | -90 | Matched |
Docs & syntax
- Excel (desktop): official documentation
- Google Sheets: official documentation
- LibreOffice Calc: official documentation
Where DEGREES behaves differently
- ACOT of a negative number is off by pi in Google Sheets versus Excel and LibreOffice
Executed evidence: =ROUND(ACOT(-2),9) is -0.463647609 in Google Sheets but 2.677945045 in Excel for the web and in all four LibreOffice builds. The two branches differ by exactly pi, 180 degrees, with no error anywhere. Dates, per-engine provenance and the portable fix.