MathHelper Class

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Contains commonly used precalculated values.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Microsoft.Xna.Framework.MathHelper

Namespace:  Microsoft.Xna.Framework
Assembly:  Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Math (in Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Math.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public NotInheritable Class MathHelper

public static class MathHelper

The MathHelper type exposes the following members.

Methods

	Name	Description
	Barycentric	Returns the Cartesian coordinate for one axis of a point that is defined by a given triangle and two normalized barycentric (areal) coordinates.
	CatmullRom	Performs a Catmull-Rom interpolation using the specified positions.
	Clamp	Restricts a value to be within a specified range.
	Distance	Calculates the absolute value of the difference of two values.
	Hermite	Performs a Hermite spline interpolation.
	Lerp	Linearly interpolates between two values.
	Max	Returns the greater of two values.
	Min	Returns the lesser of two values.
	SmoothStep	Interpolates between two values using a cubic equation.
	ToDegrees	Converts radians to degrees.
	ToRadians	Converts degrees to radians.
	WrapAngle	Reduces a given angle to a value between pi and -pi.

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Fields

	Name	Description
	E	Represents the mathematical constant e.
	Log10E	Represents the log base ten of e.
	Log2E	Represents the log base two of e.
	Pi	Represents the value of pi.
	PiOver2	Represents the value of pi divided by two.
	PiOver4	Represents the value of pi divided by four.
	TwoPi	Represents the value of pi times two.

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Version Information

Silverlight

Supported in: 5

Platforms

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Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

See Also

Reference

Microsoft.Xna.Framework Namespace