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Made-Up Trig Functions: Metatangent

2015

A digressive tangent about the function tangent.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015-01-01-made-up-trig-functions--metatangent/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

"metatangent(θ) = a digressive tangent about the function tangent, which reminds me…" "Ooh, I remember this one time…"

Topics
Trigonometry › Tangent
Level
High School
Themes
PunsLanguage & WordplayFoodAnimalsCommon Mistakes