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#1 2008-04-08 15:45:59
- mathisgreat
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cotangents, sines, and potatoes
For all real values of x for which the terms are defined:
Find the value of k.
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#2 2008-04-09 00:10:37
- Ricky
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Re: cotangents, sines, and potatoes
Remember that cot = cos / sin
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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#3 2008-04-09 00:13:54
- JaneFairfax
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Re: cotangents, sines, and potatoes
If you multiply through by
the LHS becomesOffline
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