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What is the tangent function used to find and what are its units
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What is the tangent function used to find and what are its units

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The tangent function tells you the ratio of the length of the opposite side to that of the adjacent side of one of the acute angles of a right triangle. As the ratio of two things having the same units, the tangent has no units. It is a pure number.
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