Trigonometry

Cotangent of an Angle

Inverse of the tangent of an angle. [latex]\tan{(\textit{θ})} = \dfrac{y}{x}[/latex] [latex]\cot{(\textit{θ})} = \dfrac{1}{\textrm{tan}\space{(\textit{θ})}} = \dfrac{x}{y}[/latex]
The cotangent of angle x is noted as "cot(x)" and is read as "cotangent of angle x".

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