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What is a tangent?

Updated: 12/8/2022
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A tangent is a line segment, line, or ray that intersects a circle or curve at only one point.

Additionally, a tangent is the ratio in any right triangle of the length of the opposite side to the length of the adjacent side. It will be a constant for every right triangle of any size with the same interior angles.

first of all,INTERSECTION means cutting,second;tangents do not occur always in ONE POINT.They might being involved in more than one .

To understand and visualize an approach to a tangential condition there are two numerical functions bringing it fort;

a-[(n+1):(n)]^(n)

b-[(n+1):(n)]^(n+1)

one tends to approach the Limit upward and the other downward,but there is always a tendency to become in contact.
In a right triangle, the tangent of one of the acute angles is the side opposite the angle to the side adjacent to it.

In terms of sin and cosine it's the ratio of sin to cosine (or sin / cosine).

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