Sine, Cosine and Tangent - Math is Fun Sine, Cosine and Tangent (often shortened to sin, cos and tan) are each a ratio of sides of a right angled triangle: To calculate them: Divide the length of one side by another side Example: What is the sine of 35°? Using this triangle (lengths are only to one decimal place): = 0 57 = 0 82 = 0 70
Tangent - Wikipedia In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is, intuitively, the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point Leibniz defined it as the line through a pair of infinitely close points on the curve
The Tangent Function – Mathematical Mysteries The word “tangent” comes from “tangens”, meaning touching or extending (the line that touches the circle at one point) The term “tangent” referring to an angle was first used by the Danish mathematician Thomas Fincke in 1583
What is a tangent? - gauthmath. com In geometry, a tangent is a line that intersects a curve at a single point, called the point of tangency It's crucial to remember that the tangent line doesn't cross the curve at that point; it simply touches it