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Versine
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 21:30:10

Look up versine  or versed sine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The versine or versed sine is a trigonometric function found in some of the earliest...

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Exsecant
Kamis, 2026-07-09 16:32:30

engineer Charles Haslett, who used it in conjunction with the existing versine function, vers ⁡ θ = 1 − cos ⁡ θ {\displaystyle \operatorname {vers} \theta...

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Hallade method
Sabtu, 2024-03-30 07:12:30

of track which typically feature a mix of small positive and negative versines. A standard chord length is used: in the UK this is conventionally 30 metres...

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Haversine formula
Kamis, 2026-07-09 23:15:57

be written in terms of any multiple of the haversine, such as the older versine function (twice the haversine). Prior to the advent of computers, the elimination...

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India
Jumat, 2026-08-14 09:52:20

using a pre-Ptolemaic Greek table of chords, produced tables of sines and versines, from which it was trivial to derive cosines. This new system of trigonometry...

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History of trigonometry
Senin, 2026-07-27 05:34:44

(6th century AD), who discovered the sine function, cosine function, and versine function. During the Middle Ages, the study of trigonometry continued in...

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Aryabhata
Kamis, 2026-07-30 13:55:14

(kojya), versine (utkrama-jya), and inverse sine (otkram jya) influenced the birth of trigonometry. He was also the first to specify sine and versine (1 − cos x)...

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Sagitta (geometry)
Kamis, 2026-08-13 09:56:39

may also be calculated from the versine function, for an arc that spans an angle of Δ = 2θ, and coincides with the versine for unit circles. Generally, for...

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Unit circle
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 04:09:55

tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant, as well as archaic functions like versine and exsecant – can be defined geometrically in terms of a unit circle,...

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Sine and cosine
Senin, 2026-07-27 08:54:35

Quadrant from 1840s Ottoman Turkey with axes for looking up the sine and versine of angles...

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Trigonometric functions
Selasa, 2026-07-28 08:45:16

(180–125 BCE) and Ptolemy of Roman Egypt (90–165 CE). The functions of sine and versine (1 − cosine) are closely related to the jyā and koti-jyā functions used...

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List of trigonometric identities
Senin, 2026-08-10 08:43:33

}{2}}\right)\,\sin \left({\frac {\gamma }{2}}\right)\end{aligned}}} The versine, coversine, haversine, and exsecant were used in navigation. For example...

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Chord (geometry)
Jumat, 2026-07-03 06:41:11

rotating in a convex closed curve Circle graph Exsecant and excosecant Versine and haversine – ( crd ⁡ θ = 2 haversin ⁡ θ {\displaystyle \operatorname...

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Abraham de Moivre
Kamis, 2026-05-21 15:01:09

inter x & t determinatur." (Let x be the versine of any arc [i.e., x = 1 – cos θ ]. [Let] t be the versine of another arc. [Let] 1 be the radius of the...

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Ver
Jumat, 2024-12-27 01:02:10

Ver (command), a shell command in DOS, Windows etc. an abbreviation for "versine", a trigonometric function ver (function prefix) (versus), a prefix for...

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4th century
Kamis, 2026-06-18 12:44:06

needed] Trigonometric functions: The trigonometric functions sine and versine originated in Indian astronomy. Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus...

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Cos-1
Jumat, 2022-03-04 22:38:44

COS cell lines cos x−1 = cos(x)−1 = −(1−cos(x)) = −ver(x) or negative versine of x, the additive inverse (or negation) of an old trigonometric function...

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Inverse trigonometric functions
Jumat, 2026-07-24 05:16:14

or use alternate methods. Arcsine distribution Inverse exsecant Inverse versine Inverse hyperbolic functions List of integrals of inverse trigonometric...

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Witch of Agnesi
Kamis, 2026-02-12 14:12:56

the sail, but Grandi may have instead intended merely to refer to the versine function that appeared in his construction. In 1748, Maria Gaetana Agnesi...

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Circle
Senin, 2026-08-10 16:39:06

angle (since the central angle is 180°). The sagitta (also known as the versine) is a line segment drawn perpendicular to a chord, between the midpoint...

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Cofunction
Kamis, 2025-12-25 01:44:09

also known as the cofunction identities. This also holds true for the versine (versed sine, ver) and coversine (coversed sine, cvs), the vercosine (versed...

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Sagitta (disambiguation)
Rabu, 2025-11-12 11:22:19

Dutch-designed glider that first flew in 1960 USNS Sagitta (T-AK-87) (1944–1959) Versine, a trigonometric function Sagitta, pseudonym of Scottish-German author...

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Trigonometry
Minggu, 2026-07-05 02:30:52

seldom used today. These include the chord (crd θ = 2 sin ⁠θ/2⁠), the versine (vers θ = 1 − cos θ = 2 sin2 ⁠θ/2⁠) (which appeared in the earliest tables)...

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Spherical law of cosines
Kamis, 2026-07-09 08:52:43

Regiomontanus used nearly the modern form, but written in terms of the versine, ⁠ vers ⁡ x = 1 − cos ⁡ x {\displaystyle \operatorname {vers} x=1-\cos...

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Natural logarithm
Jumat, 2026-08-14 10:06:50

calculations for certain input values see trigonometric functions like versine and exsecant. Weisstein, Eric W. "Natural Logarithm". mathworld.wolfram...

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Vers
Rabu, 2023-12-13 18:47:48

tributary of the Lot Vers, an abbreviation for the trigonometric function versine Vers, an abbreviation for versatile, commonly used in Western gay male...

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List of mathematical functions
Minggu, 2026-05-03 15:39:30

sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant, cosecant, exsecant, excosecant, versine, coversine, vercosine, covercosine, haversine, hacoversine, havercosine...

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Surya Siddhanta
Senin, 2026-07-27 20:19:19

measures of angles, made their calculations differently, "introduced the versine, which is the difference between the radius and cosine, and discovered...

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List of mathematical abbreviations
Kamis, 2026-02-26 14:30:51

as vercos.) ver – versine function. (Also written as vers, siv.) vercos – vercosine function. (Also written as vcs.) vers – versine function. (Also written...

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Small-angle approximation
Senin, 2026-05-18 03:42:35

table. The result is accurate to the four digits given. Skinny triangle Versine Exsecant Holbrow, Charles H.; et al. (2010), Modern Introductory Physics...

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Indian mathematics
Minggu, 2026-08-09 16:42:46

half an angle and half a chord. Defined the cosine (kojya). Defined the versine (utkrama-jya). Defined the inverse sine (otkram jya). Gave methods of calculating...

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Sagitta (optics)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 19:17:32

quadric surface specified by R {\displaystyle R} and K {\displaystyle K} . Versine Chord Barbastathis, George; Sheppard, Colin. "Real and Virtual Images"...

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Jyā, koti-jyā and utkrama-jyā
Kamis, 2026-07-09 13:53:16

of the complement", suggesting the similarity to kojyā is coincidental. Versine B.B. Datta and A.N. Singh (1983). "Hindu Trigonometry" (PDF). Indian Journal...

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List of Indian inventions and discoveries
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:41:53

complexity. Trigonometric functions – The trigonometric functions sine and versine originated in Indian astronomy along with the cosine and inversine , adapted...

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Stumpff function
Jumat, 2026-07-10 15:58:23

{\displaystyle (1-\cos \theta )} can be calculated without cancellation as the versine function: versin ⁡ θ = 1 − cos ⁡ θ = 2 sin 2 ⁡ θ 2 {\displaystyle \operatorname...

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Timurid Renaissance
Selasa, 2026-06-23 02:43:08

armillary and solsticial armillary of Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi, the sine and versine instrument of Urdi, the sextant of al-Khujandi, the Fakhri sextant at the...

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History of science and technology on the Indian subcontinent
Selasa, 2026-05-12 21:20:30

he claimed would run forever. The trigonometric functions of sine and versine, from which it was trivial to derive the cosine, were used by the mathematician...

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Trigonometric table
Jumat, 2026-07-10 22:02:55

some early trigonometric tables used not sine and cosine, but sine and versine. A quick, but inaccurate, algorithm for calculating a table of N approximations...

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Outline of trigonometry
Minggu, 2026-06-21 22:10:05

function Inverse trigonometric functions Jyā, koti-jyā and utkrama-jyā Versine Trigonometric identity (list) De Moivre's formula Euler's formula Hermite's...

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Cours d'analyse
Senin, 2025-04-28 12:09:29

cosine with the coversed sine. Cauchy originally defined the sinus versus (versine) as siv(θ) = 1 − cos(θ) and the cosinus versus (what is now also known...

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List of periodic functions
Selasa, 2026-03-24 18:12:21

\operatorname {exsec} (x)} sec ⁡ ( x ) − 1 {\displaystyle \sec(x)-1} - Versine vers ⁡ ( x ) {\displaystyle \operatorname {vers} (x)} 1 − cos ⁡ ( x ) {\displaystyle...

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List of mathematical series
Minggu, 2026-05-17 15:14:48

_{k=1}^{\infty }{\frac {(-1)^{k-1}z^{2k}}{(2k)!}}=\operatorname {ver} z} (versine) ∑ k = 1 ∞ ( − 1 ) k − 1 z 2 k 2 ( 2 k ) ! = hav ⁡ z {\displaystyle \sum...

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Garga-samhita (Garga and Bharadvaja)
Kamis, 2024-07-25 23:43:14

kalpa Jīvā-janma: derivation of 36 sines Jīvā-vidhā: values of sines and versine Graha-sphuṭī-karma: changes in the size of epicycles according to the quadrant...

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Wu Chinese-speaking people
Minggu, 2026-05-31 00:29:33

arc of a circle s by s = c + 2v2/d, where d is the diameter, v is the versine, c is the length of the chord c subtending the arc. Xu Guangqi (1562–1633)...

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Ptolemy's table of chords
Senin, 2026-08-10 21:57:42

late 1500s Greek mathematics Madhava's sine table Ptolemy Scale of chords Versine Toomer, G. J. (1998), Ptolemy's Almagest, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-00260-6...

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Chinese mathematics
Jumat, 2026-08-07 03:53:37

arc of a circle s by s = c + 2v2/d, where d is the diameter, v is the versine, c is the length of the chord c subtending the arc. Sal Restivo writes...

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Jamshid al-Kashi
Minggu, 2026-06-14 12:22:57

armillary and solsticial armillary of Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi, the sine and versine instrument of Urdi, the sextant of al-Khujandi, the Fakhri sextant at the...

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Railway platform height
Kamis, 2026-07-23 06:08:08

high. Both specifications apply to straight sections with allowances for versine, end throw and cant on curves. Platforms for long-distance trains are 200 mm...

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Geometric design of roads
Selasa, 2026-08-11 22:57:35

}{2}}\right)}}-1\right)} The quantity 1 − cos ⁡ θ {\displaystyle 1-\cos \theta } is the versine and 1 / cos ⁡ θ − 1 {\displaystyle 1/\!\cos \theta -1} is the exsecant...

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Jean de Monchy
Senin, 2026-07-06 05:21:42

1563. Madeleine de Suze was the daughter of Philippe de Suze, sieur de La Versine and Claude de Villiers. He had issue: François de Monchy (–1552), murdered...

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