Saturday, January 17, 2009

Sine: The first trigonometric function

The sine of an angle is defined as the length of the hypotenuse divided by the length of the opposite side.

Sine function defined in a triangle

Thus if O=6 and H=10 then

sin(x) = 6/10

= 3/5
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