Quote Originally Posted by Vivisteiner View Post
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Because I cant. What level is this around?

And what the hell is up with all this trigonometry crap? It was so easy when you just had sin, cos and tan. Then they add csc and cot which is just about all right. And now they have arcsin, arctan, arccos, arccsc, arcsec, arccot!

Whats the point?

Is it just for simplification or something?
arcsin is the inverse function of sin; arctan is the inverse function of tan, etc... Once you understand the relationships between them, they're quite simple, actually. And csc = (1/sin), cot = (1/tan) which are pretty straight forward too.