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    the integral of the secant function can be evaluated using a variety of methods and there are multiple ways of expressing the antiderivative, all of which...
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  • The integral of secant cubed is a frequent and challenging indefinite integral of elementary calculus: ∫ sec 3 ⁡ x d x = 1 2 sec ⁡ x tan ⁡ x + 1 2 ∫ sec...
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  • Integration is the basic operation in integral calculus. While differentiation has straightforward rules by which the derivative of a complicated function can be...
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    Exsecant (redirect from Exterior secant)
    The external secant function (abbreviated exsecant, symbolized exsec) is a trigonometric function defined in terms of the secant function: exsec ⁡ θ =...
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    Gudermannian function is typically defined for − ∞ < ψ < ∞ {\textstyle -\infty <\psi <\infty } to be the integral of the hyperbolic secant ϕ = gd ⁡ ψ ≡...
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  • 22/7 exceeds π Trapezium rule Integral of the secant function Integral of secant cubed Arclength Solid of revolution Shell integration Natural logarithm...
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    cosecant, the secant, and the cotangent functions, which are less used. Each of these six trigonometric functions has a corresponding inverse function, and...
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    trigonometric functions, see List of integrals of exponential functions. For a complete list of antiderivative functions, see Lists of integrals. For the special...
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  • the definition of the derivative: in the calculus of one variable, this is the limiting value of the slope of secant lines to the graph of a function...
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    secant "sech" (/ˈsɛtʃ, ˈʃɛk/), hyperbolic cosecant "csch" or "cosech" (/ˈkoʊsɛtʃ, ˈkoʊʃɛk/) corresponding to the derived trigonometric functions. The...
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    trigonometric functions, under suitably restricted domains. Specifically, they are the inverses of the sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant...
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    zero). The angles λ and φ are expressed in radians. By the integral of the secant function, x = R ( λ − λ 0 ) , y = R ln ⁡ [ tan ⁡ ( π 4 + φ 2 ) ] ...
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  • one of its secant lines. The method of exhaustion was later discovered independently in China by Liu Hui in the 3rd century AD to find the area of a circle...
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  • is at least one point at which the tangent to the arc is parallel to the secant through its endpoints. It is one of the most important results in real...
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    mathematics, the Fourier transform (FT) is an integral transform that takes a function as input then outputs another function that describes the extent to...
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  • not strictly a transcendental function. Periodic functions Trigonometric functions: sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant, cosecant, exsecant, excosecant...
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    real-valued function is called convex if the line segment between any two distinct points on the graph of the function lies above or on the graph between the two...
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    inverse hyperbolic secant, and inverse hyperbolic cotangent. They are commonly denoted by the symbols for the hyperbolic functions, prefixed with arc-...
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  • The following is a list of indefinite integrals (antiderivatives) of expressions involving the inverse hyperbolic functions. For a complete list of integral...
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    the statement that the secant line of a convex function lies above the graph of the function, which is Jensen's inequality for two points: the secant...
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    James Gregory (mathematician) (category Academics of the University of Edinburgh)
    the length of the arc of a circle from the tangent, and vice versa; as also for the secant and logarithmic tangent and secant, and vice versa. These...
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  • The following is a list of integrals (anti-derivative functions) of hyperbolic functions. For a complete list of integral functions, see list of integrals...
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    known as a secant line. If the two points that the secant line goes through are close together, then the secant line closely resembles the tangent line...
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    produced tables of sines, cosines and tangents. Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (853–929) discovered the reciprocal functions of secant and cosecant...
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    Consequently, the secant lines do not approach any single slope, so the limit of the difference quotient does not exist. However, even if a function is continuous...
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  • integration is a process that finds the integral of a product of functions in terms of the integral of the product of their derivative and antiderivative...
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    maximum at small x. Hence, the integral of a bell-shaped function is typically a sigmoid function. Bell shaped functions are also commonly symmetric...
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    real-valued functions of several real variables, this holds if and only if the absolute value of the slopes of all secant lines are bounded by K. The set of lines...
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    The differentiation of trigonometric functions is the mathematical process of finding the derivative of a trigonometric function, or its rate of change...
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    Trigonometric substitution (category Integral calculus)
    \theta )\,d\theta .\end{aligned}}} One may evaluate the integral of the secant function by multiplying the numerator and denominator by ( sec ⁡ θ + tan ⁡ θ...
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