trig

Examples of trig in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web If your trig is hazy, just remember that all trig functions tell us about the ratio of sides for right triangles. Rhett Allain, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023 Any student who is not interested in seeing a drag queen, or whose parents forbid them from seeing one, or who believes Lady Gaga songs are played out, or has too much trig to make up, can skip the event. Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023 By using the Law of Sines, and avoiding the Pythagorean theorem’s trig identity (sin²α + cos²α = 1), Johnson and Jackson successfully proved the theorem without resorting to circular reasoning. Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023 The oldest way is to just look them up in a trig table. Rhett Allain, Wired, 14 Mar. 2022

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“Trig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trig. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.

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