trig

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The kids rehearsed months, long into the night, then gave performances to sold-out crowds and scrambled to finish trig and AP history homework too.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2023

Imagine if your old trig worksheets stepped in to help you out when you were stumped on a question.

From The Verge • Mar. 16, 2022

Understanding all the relationships between different trig functions and different types of angles is vastly simplified by setting the hypotenuse of all the right triangles equal to 1 and placing them inside a circle.

From Scientific American • Oct. 7, 2017

When solving a trigonometric equation involving more than one trig function, do we always want to try to rewrite the equation so it is expressed in terms of one trigonometric function?

From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015

Ever since European history last week and those damn pink triangles...it’s as if quitting trig opened up a channel of thinking I was pushing away.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King