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How to find vertical asymptotes of cotangent function?

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Vertical asypmtotes are line of the form
x = k, where k is a point not in the domain of the function.

Since the definition of the cotangent function is


\cot(x) = (\cos(x))/(\sin(x))

The function is not defined where the denominator is zero, i.e.


\sin(x) = 0 \iff x = k\pi,\ k \in \mathbb{Z}

So, every line with equation
x = k\pi is a vertical asymptote for the cotangent function. Some examples may be


x = 0,\ x = \pi,\ x = -3\pi,\ x = 152\pi,\ x = -234\pi,\ldots

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