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secant [Brit ˈsiːk(ə)nt, ˈsɛk(ə)nt, Am ˈsiˌkænt, ˈsiˌkənt] N MATH

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Then use a table of secants to find out that 7.0 is the secant of 81.8 degrees. en.wikipedia.org

Secant piled walls can either be true hard/hard, hard/intermediate (firm), or hard/soft, depending on design requirements. en.wikipedia.org

The following graph shows the function "f" in red and the last secant line in bold blue. en.wikipedia.org

Using linear interpolation instead of quadratic interpolation gives the secant method. en.wikipedia.org

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. en.wikipedia.org

A chord is an interval of a secant line, the portion of the line that lies within the curve. en.wikipedia.org

The tangent line is a limit of secant lines just as the derivative is a limit of difference quotients. en.wikipedia.org

No tangent line can be drawn through a point in the interior of a circle, since any such line must be a secant line. en.wikipedia.org

Geometrically, the limit of the secant lines is the tangent line. en.wikipedia.org

In fact, the union of the tangent and secant lines of any non-planar smooth algebraic curve is three-dimensional. en.wikipedia.org

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