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what are the operations of the six main trig functions (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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sorry for my layman terminology, but to my understanding as a coder a function has a name, parameters, arguments and operations. if sin is the name, and its parameters are side opposite and hypotenuse, and its arguments are context dependent, what is the operation itself? am i making sense?

def sin (hypotenuse, opposite):
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm probably way too elementary for this post, but just in case someone doesn't know about SohCahToa (pro. soh-cah-toh-ah).

Soh

sin is opposite over hypotenuse

Cah

cos is adjacent over hypotenuse

Toa

tan is opposite over adjacent

I made it through my college trigonometry class by just remembering that one simple pneumonic. Everything else that was taught could be derived from it.