-
secant line for
circles and
curves are
identical and the
possibility of
additional points of
intersection just does not
occur for a circle.
Secants may...
- up
secant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Secant is a term in
mathematics derived from the
Latin secare ("to cut"). It may
refer to: a
secant line...
- the
secant method is a root-finding
algorithm that uses a
succession of
roots of
secant lines to
better approximate a root of a
function f. The
secant method...
- For the
intersecting secants theorem and
chord theorem the
power of a
point plays the role of an invariant:
Intersecting secants theorem: For a point...
- in that context, "tables of
external secants and
versed sines [were] more
common than [were]
tables of
secants". In the late-19th and 20th century, railroads...
- the
intersecting secants theorem or just
secant theorem describes the
relation of line
segments created by two
intersecting secants and the ****ociated...
- tangent-
secant theorem can be
proven using similar triangles (see graphic). Like the
intersecting chords theorem and the
intersecting secants theorem...
- two chords, CD and EB,
intersect at A, then AC × AD = AB × AE. If two
secants, AE and AD, also cut the
circle at B and C respectively, then AC × AD =...
-
segment Spherical cap
Tangent space "Map
projection -
types and distortion". geokov.com.
Retrieved 2016-11-02.
Tangents and
Secants in Map Projections...
-
tangent functions.
Their reciprocals are
respectively the cosecant, the
secant, and the
cotangent functions,
which are less used. Each of
these six trigonometric...
