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secant
noun
secant
adjective and adverb
secant MATH
secans m

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Why did he never mention the secant, with which he in fact operated?
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Like the stereographic projection and gnomonic projection, orthographic projection is a perspective (or azimuthal) projection, in which the sphere is projected onto a tangent plane or secant plane.
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The method is a generalization of the secant method.
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A chord is an interval of a secant line, the portion of the line that lies within the curve.
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It converges faster than the secant method.
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Then use a table of secants to find out that 7.0 is the secant of 81.8 degrees.
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The algorithm tries to use the potentially fast-converging secant method or inverse quadratic interpolation if possible, but it falls back to the more robust bisection method if necessary.
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The false position method can be faster than the bisection method and will never diverge like the secant method, but fails to converge under some naive implementations.
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For a line, the secant between any two points is the line itself, but this is not the case for any other type of curve.
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This divides north-south distances by a factor equal to the secant of the latitude, preserving area but heavily distorting shapes.
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