Re: OT: Math symbols conventions

Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>
>  --- Gustavo Eulalio wrote:
>
> >         Anyone knows where I can find about math conventions? I'm
>specially
> > interested in the trigonometrical symbols (like cos, sin, ...).
> >         I'm asking because most programs I've been using will print
>'sin'
> > for Sine. But we use 'sen' or 'Sen' for that (from Seno) in Portuguese.
> > I was wondering whether there's some international convention defining
> > if it's 'sin', or 'sen', or whatever.
> >         I've also seen variants for Tangent: tan, tg, Tg
>
>This is how I learnt it:
>   sin   (sinus)
>   cos   (cosinus)
>   tan   (tangens)
>   cot   (cotangens)
>   sec   (secans)
>   cosec (cosecans)
I learnt the same, except "csc" for cosecans. That's what my math programme
on the comp uses, too.

                                                Andreas

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