Is Tangent Function Periodic Like Sine and Cosine?

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cos and sin are periodic at 2pi

How about tan?
 

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Do you know what the graph of tan(x) looks like?
 
tan = sin/cos
what does this tell you?
 
Hi SELFMADE! :wink:

(have a pi: π :wink:)
SELFMADE said:
cos and sin are periodic at 2pi

How about tan?

tan is periodic … but the minimum period is not 2π … what is it? :smile:
 
It is pi, got it thanks
 

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