Re: OT: Math symbols conventions
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 1, 2002, 5:38 |
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--- 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)
Jan
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