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Seriously? Cosecant? Really?


Bronium

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I'm not sure why you did this. I mean, come on! Christ. This is the worst.

 

Okay, let me tell you what I'm talking about. Now many of you will know sine, cosine, tangent. Fairly simple stuff. I mean, I get cosine and tangent. I mean, that makes sense. But where in the world did sine come from? If you know, leave me a hint. I've too lazy to bother with google.

 

But here's the real kicker. Secant is the reciprocal of cosine...come on now. What were you thinking! How....why? Trig is hard enough for those who don't study. And now you mess up the balance! Why could secant be the reciprocal of sine? Was that so hard? And this wouldn't so bad if they didn't call the reciprocal of tangent cotangent. I can't even make a system to remember the stuff now. I actually have to do tedious piles of homework to get those into my head, so I can use them without having to pause for a think. D

 

o you know how long it took me to begin to write states in Chemistry (which actually has a point, as much as my friends tend to disagree) naturally? Too bloody long. I mean, I understand. You came up with something really fantastic. But did you really have to ruin it for the rest of us? People like you make me sick *spits*.

 

What was I talking about again? Oh yeah, Couldn't you have called sine^-1 secant. Would that have been so hard? No one would have blamed you. In fact, many teachers would love you for it. It's just so so annoying. I am a fan of your graphs though. Really, I'm a fan of anything that has an asymptote. It sounds like a cruel joke. You make make them move to infinity, and they still won't touch what they want. Either way, people like you make me sick.

 


 

If any of you know why they named sine, sine and why they they name sine^-1 secant, write it in the comments.

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Stop reminding me of those horrible class periods spent on trig identities! D:

 

But yes, I too enjoy trig graphs. They look cool, and most teachers don't mind if the lines aren't exact as long as the intercepts and asymptotes (if there are any) are in the right places.

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</3 I love trig identities. I spend so much time of graphs now. But you know what's a bitch to draw? ax^n +bx^n-1 +c where n = 1 or 2. Now, the graph itself isn't all that bad. But when you have to draw ax^n and bx^n-1 on the same graph, it makes it really hard to look at stuff because you have to get everything into proportion.

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I used to like them, but then we had two tests in a row that were nothing but stuff like (sin/cot)+sec(cot-cos)-1/(csc+tan) = sincos+(tan/(sec+tan))-cot/(1+sin) and I was like, fuck this, this isn't fun anymore.

 

I made that up off the top of my head, by the way. I'll be extremely surprised if those actually do equal each other :P

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