10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COVERSED SINE»
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coversed sine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Elements of plane and spherical trigonometry
Besides the six trigonometrical lines now defined there are three others,
sometimes, although but seldom, employed ; these are the verted sine or sagitta,
the coversed sine, and the suversed sine. The versed sine of an arc BC (see fig.
to art.
Sine 3 = 36 " Versed sine 1 = 12 " Coversed sine 2 = 24 " Tangent 33⁄4 = 45 "
Secant 61⁄4 = 75 " Cotangent 62⁄3 = 80 " Cosecant 81⁄3 = 100 " Tangent + Secant
= Diameter or 2 Radius Cotan+ Cosec = 3 Radius Sine :Versedsine :: 3 : 1
Cosine ...
Mary Elizabeth Counselman
3
A general geometry and calculus: Including part I. of the ...
Prop. — The differential of an arc in terms of its coversed-sine has the opposite
sign from the function, and is numerically equal to the differential of the coversed-
sine divided by the square root of twice the coversed-sine minus the square of
the ...
4
Elements of plane and spherical trigonometry
The cosine of an arc is the sine of its complement^ In like manner, the coversed
sine, cotangent, and cosecant of an arc, are respectively the versed sine, tangent,
and secant of its complement. 9. Thus, let C be the centre^ and AB, DE, two ...
5
Trigonometry for Beginners ...
The words sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant, cosecant, versed sine, and
coversed sine are usually abbreviated in writing and printing; thus the above
definitions may be expressed as follows : . . PM . AM *inA=AP' cosA = AP, . . PM .
6
Tables for Facilitating the Calculations of Nautical ...
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. io'I ...
José de Mendoza y Riós, Henry Cavendish, 1801
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Nesbit's Practical Land-Surveying. Eleventh edition. (Field ...
The versed sine of an are that measures an acute angle is that segment of the
radius which lies between the sine and the arc. Thus SB is the versed sine of AB,
and GH the versed sine of 1m. 10. The coversed sine of an arc is the versed sine
...
Anthony NESBIT, William BURNESS, 1870
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An introduction to the theory ... of plane and spherical ...
(105) The coversed sine of an arc is the versed sine of the complement of that arc
. Thus, ae is the coversed sine of the arc bf, being the versed sine of the arc af. (
106) The cochord of an arc is the chord of the complement of that arc. (107) Let A
...
Thomas Keith, Samuel Maynard, 1839
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The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of ...
[103, 53] coversine (noun): short for coversed sine, a contraction of complemental
versed sine. The coversed sine of an angle 6 is abbreviated covers 8 or cvj 6.
Just as the cosine is the complement of the sine, the coversed sine is the ...
10
Elements of trigonometry, and trigonometrical analysis, ...
A tangent or cotangent may have any value whatsoever. Let sin 0 and read cos 0
tan 0 cote sec0 sine of 0 0 be written cosine tangent cotangent secant cosecant
cosec 0 versed sine vers 0 coversed sine covers 9 Similarly, let sine ofA.l° be ...
