trig function
Americannoun
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You can just read the sine off of the picture! After a few weeks of struggling to remember which trig function was which for which angle in a triangle, learning about and then internalizing the unit circle was huge for me.
From Scientific American
The versine is a fairly obvious trig function to define and seems to have been used as far back as 400 CE in India.
From Scientific American
The one bonus trig function that confuses me a little bit is the vercosine.
From Scientific American
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