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Title: What is significance sine, cosine, and tangent in a triangle? Post by: tommyd on Sep 27, 2012 I understand the whole how you do it and what it gives you and the formulas and such, but I don't understand what it is doing... like for example the Pythagorean theorem has to do with the are of 3 squares around the triangle.... what about sine, cosine, and tangent? what is going on when I do the formula?
Title: What is significance sine, cosine, and tangent in a triangle? Post by: nytrydaa on Sep 27, 2012 Theyre really just numbers, helpful numbers. Like pi, no one is sure how it relates exactly to circles, it just does
Title: Re: What is significance sine, cosine, and tangent in a triangle? Post by: bio_man on Sep 27, 2012 Theyre really just numbers, helpful numbers. Like pi, no one is sure how it relates exactly to circles, it just does Pi is found by taking the circumference and dividing it by the same circles diameter. |