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Getting an angle in degrees from north

This may have been asked already, but I was unable to find it, because I don't really know what I'm looking for. I drew a picture: I need theta. I've seen various solutions using Vector.Dot, and ...
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what does AngleVectors method in quake 3 source code does

I just downloaded quake 3 for learning purposes. I know some of some linear algebra(basic vector math ie: dot,cross product). However I can't decipher what below method does, I know what is yaw,pitch ...
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Unity: parallel vectors and cross product, how to compare vectors

I read this post explaining a method to understand if the angle between 2 given vectors and the normal to the plane described by them, is clockwise or anticlockwise: public static AngleDir ...
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Ball bouncing at a certain angle and efficiency computations

I would like to make a pong game with a small twist (for now). Every time the ball bounces off one of the paddles i want it to be under a certain angle (between a min and a max). I simply can't ...
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Calculate path of laser beam?

Lets say we have a laser beam emitter that has a position and an angle (in a 2D world to simplify things). The laser emitted from that emitter will start at that position, and continue heading in the ...