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tan

tangent

This function will return some known values for multiples of pi, pi/2, pi/3, etc. For numeric values it returns the javascript value for pi. In all other cases it returns a symbolic function. Expects radians.

Usage: nerdamer("tan(x)")

Parameters

expression x

Returns the appropriate value if possible otherwise it returns the function with the simplified expression

Returns

Expression

EXAMPLES:

var r = nerdamer('tan(pi)');
console.log(r.toString());
var t = nerdamer('tan(x)')
console.log(t.toString());
var u = nerdamer('tan(pi/4)')
console.log(u.toString());
var v = nerdamer('tan(pi/2)')
console.log(v.toString());

OUTPUT:

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