Sunday, February 20, 2011

Secant

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Some think he's sec(y), but don't get too close, because he's the opposite of cos(y).

4 comments:

DaPi said...

oops - sign wrong outside +-pi/2

DaPi said...

e.g.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Trigonometric_functions.svg

(x, why?) said...

Well, of course!
Those are the secans, not the secants!

(x, why?) said...

http://mrburkemath.blogspot.com/2011/02/no-secant.html