Arc Cotangent (Noun)
Meaning
The inverse function of the cotangent; the angle that has a cotangent equal to a given number.
Classification
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
Examples
- The mathematician carefully calculated the arc cotangent of the given value to obtain the desired angle.
- To find the reference angle, we must first calculate the arc cotangent of the specified ratio.
- Using a calculator, the student was able to determine the arc cotangent of 0.75 and round it to the nearest tenth.
- Since the cotangent is periodic with period pi, the principal value of the arc cotangent is restricted to the interval from 0 to pi.
- The programmer successfully implemented the arc cotangent function in the code to accurately compute angles given various input ratios.