@phaedral @futurebird @Infrapink @jacquiharper this is the tangent from trigonometry not the same tangent.
Futurebird is likely a much better math teacher than I am. I haven't done anything beyond 8th grade algebra in years.
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Is there a math concept that never made sense to you?@phaedral @futurebird @Infrapink @jacquiharper
A tangent is a straight line that touches a curve on exactly one point. The slope of that tangent is then considered the slope of the curve at that exact point.