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What are secants?

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Secants are lines that have a chord within them, and a chord is a segment that has endpoints on the circle itself.

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Does trignometry secant relate to circles secant?
yes
When is secant not defined?
The secant of an angle is the reciprocal of the cosine of the angle.So the secant is not defined whenever the cosine is zeroThat is, whenever the angle is a multiple of 180 degrees (or pi radians).
What is a secant of a circle?
a secant is a line containing a chord. Answer. A secant is a line that intersects the circle twice(or passes through a circle)
What is an secant in math?
Secant is a trignometric function. In a right triangle, the secant of an angle is the hypotenuse over the adjacent side. It is also the inverse of cosine. For example secant(x) = 1/cos(x)
What is the period of secant?
2*Pi