Re: Sin Cos Tan, why not Sin Sec Tan?

From: *** T. Winter (***.Winter_at_cwi.nl)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:19:02 GMT

In article <8UoJc.1784$K53.1506@news-server.bigpond.net.au> cass.harley@bigpond.com writes:
...
> You have touched on what I was trying to say in a previous post (one
> that was about the same time as yours).
>
> Why is it important that the hypotonuse be the denomitator? Because the
> answer will always be <=1. Because as far as I can tell that is the only
> reason for choosing the sin/cos pair over the sec/csc pair.
>
> I am guessing that there is a very good answer why this is better then
> the result being >1, however I cannot yet see why.

Because in that case you have angles for which the function value is not
defined. 

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