Takes the cosecant of a number (usually, an angle).
csc(angle)
Menu Location
- Press 2nd MATH to enter the MATH popup menu.
- Press A to enter the Trig submenu.
- Press 4 to select csc(.
This command requires a calculator with AMS version 2.07 or higher (it will also work on any TI-89 Titanium or Voyage 200 calculator)
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The csc() command returns the cosecant (the reciprocal of the sine) of an angle measure. Naturally, the result depends on the angle mode the calculator is in: radian, degree, or (in AMS version 3.10) gradian. You can also use one of the r, °, G marks to specify an angle mode.
The csc() command, along with 11 other trig and hyperbolic functions, was added with AMS version 2.07. It can be easily replaced on earlier versions with 1/sin(x), which is what it simplifies to anyway.
For many common angles, csc() can compute an exact result. Other angles, the calculator will leave alone unless it's in approximate mode (or unless you make it approximate), and then it will give a decimal approximation. As long as the calculator is in radian mode, csc() can be used with complex numbers as well.
:csc(30°)
2
:csc(x)
1/sin(x)
:csc(0)
undef
If csc() is applied to a list, it will take the secant of every element in the list. However, it can't be applied to matrices the way sin() can (this is probably an oversight; all the trig and hyperbolic functions that were present in all AMS versions work with matrices, but the ones added in version 2.07 do not).
Error Conditions
260 - Domain error happens when taking csc() of a complex number in degree or gradian mode.