Posted on April 27, 2022 (Updated on July 22, 2025)
What is CSC in terms of sin and cos?
Space & NavigationCosecant: It’s All About the Flip Side of Sine (and a Little Cosine Too!)
Okay, so you’re diving into trigonometry, huh? You’ve probably met sine and cosine – the rockstars of the trig world. But what about cosecant? It’s time to pull back the curtain on this trig function and see how it’s really just sine’s alter ego (with a quirky connection to cosine thrown in for good measure).
Basically, cosecant (or csc, as the cool kids call it) is just 1 divided by sine. Yep, that’s it! Think of it as flipping sine upside down.
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