Arccotangent (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 arccotangent of a number is the angle whose cotangent is that number.
- In trigonometry, the arccotangent is the inverse function of the cotangent function.
- Using a calculator, you can find that the arccotangent of 0.75 is approximately 53.13 degrees.
- The arccotangent function returns an angle in the range from 0 to π, where the angle has the given cotangent.
- To solve the equation involving the cotangent, we first take the arccotangent of both sides.