Re: Perhaps this is a dumb question...


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Re: Perhaps this is a dumb question...



sin^-1 is arcsin... 1/sin is multiplicative inverse... if you ever took
trig, you would know that...
At 22:31 10/7/96 GMT, Mark A. Roaquin wrote:
>but how come the graph of sin^-1(x) is different from the graph of
>1/sin(x)? If x=1 and I try to calculate these two functions, they yield
>different values.
>
>Aren't they the same function? They seem equivalent.
>
>Mark R.
>Hunter HS, 11th Grade, NYC
>TI-83
>
>
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