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Trig functions on iPhone calculator?

On the scientific calculator on my iPhone 4, I see the buttons for sine, cosine, and tangent, but how do I get secant, cosecant, and cotangent? And what are sinh, cosh, and tanh?


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Posted on May 21, 2013 6:30 PM

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Posted on May 21, 2013 7:01 PM

The "h" functions are hyperbolic functions (hyperbolic sine, consine and tangent); see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_function.


Secant, cosecant and cotangent can be calculated as the reciprocal of cosine, sine and tangent using teh 1/x function (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric_functions#Reciprocal_functions).


The app store is full of alternative calulators as well, including reproductions of some of the Hewlett Packard ones such as the 15C.

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May 21, 2013 7:01 PM in response to Schwaben10

The "h" functions are hyperbolic functions (hyperbolic sine, consine and tangent); see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_function.


Secant, cosecant and cotangent can be calculated as the reciprocal of cosine, sine and tangent using teh 1/x function (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometric_functions#Reciprocal_functions).


The app store is full of alternative calulators as well, including reproductions of some of the Hewlett Packard ones such as the 15C.

Trig functions on iPhone calculator?

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