tangent curve

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   Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 08:22:37 JST Robert Link

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   @dendari @futurebird @Infrapink @jacquiharper Arguably that's a different use of the word. Of course it's been 30+ years since second semester calculus, which is as far as I got.

   "tangent" is defined:

   Given an angle θ (in either degrees or radians) and the (x,y) coordinates of the corresponding point on the unit circle, we define tangent as

   tan(θ)=y/x

   Resulting in this curve: