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Poll Question: What is your favorite
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    Posted: February 07 2007 at 21:51
I'm just keeping this to the standard six so it doesn't get out of control. Besides who would seriously say arcsecant anyway? Please try to keep this civil. I know people get pretty defensive about their trig functions, but this is a family forum.

Personally mine is Tangent. So many uses, and it has such a distinct personality.


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Tangent, it looks so cool on my graphing calculator...
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Obviously the best trigonometric function is that of the arctangent... but alas... I will vote for the regular tangent (as it has connotations with rants, and I love a good rant every now and then).Exclamation
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eh, cotangent i guess

btw, my calculus teacher this semester bites, we've already covered about 3 chaptersConfused.
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What's wrong with that?
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Well, math isn't my favorite subject, that, and she always makes things seem harder than they really are, it's frustrating. I understand how to do it, nonetheless, I just kinda feel bad for the people in there that have never had any calculus before (this is calculus for science/math majors and most of the people in there haven't had elementary calculus or anything like that previously).

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sine, that's the first one given in my school
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Sinus
 
I got a few of them, does that make them co-sinusses?Tongue
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I'd prefer to vote for sin(x) and cos(x) together with a 90 degree phase shift to get exp(i*x).
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Inverse trig is better. Wink

But ill go with cosecant.  Honorable mention to  Cotangent though. Such a beast.
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Off at tangents! Tongue
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cosine and sine are tied due to their roles in combining to form e^(ix)
and of course the Fourier transform!



and don't forget that e^(i*pi) = -1
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Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:


and don't forget that e^(i*pi) = -1

Is it true that e^(i*pi)=1 is carved on Leonhard Euler's tombstone?
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secant....the ghetto function... or 1/cosine....either way I felt bad that it had no votes
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Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Inverse trig is better. Wink

But ill go with cosecant.  Honorable mention to  Cotangent though. Such a beast.


Yeah, but if you include inverse then you have to include hyperbolic too, and then everything is just so sloppy.
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Originally posted by GoldenSpiral GoldenSpiral wrote:

cosine and sine are tied due to their roles in combining to form e^(ix)
and of course the Fourier transform!



and don't forget that e^(i*pi) = -1


GoldenSpiral one-upped me in the nerdiness department with use of LaTeX.  Wink
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Sine all the way.
 
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Inverse trig is better. Wink

But ill go with cosecant.  Honorable mention to  Cotangent though. Such a beast.


Yeah, but if you include inverse then you have to include hyperbolic too, and then everything is just so sloppy.
 
Hyperbolic trig...the black sheep of the trig family, as far as i'm concerned.
 
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^ You have to admit that cosh and sinh are cool to say though.
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Sin(1/x) is pretty cool.
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