The variable popradians controls whether the trigonometric procedures take arguments, or produce results in degrees or radians. We can use the fact that "pi" is a built in constant thus:
true -> popradians; sin(90) => ** 0.893997 sin(pi/2) => ** 1.0 arcsin(1) => ** 1.5708 false -> popradians; sin(90) => ** 1.0 sin(pi/2) => ** 0.027412 arcsin(1) => ** 90.0