Cos 87 Degrees
Sin, Cos, Tan, Cot of an Angle
What is cos 87°?
Answer
cos 87° ≈
0.0523
Angle in radians: 87° = 29π/60. The point of the angle is in quadrant I, where cosine is positive.
≈ — rounded to 4 decimal places. An exact form of cos 87° in square roots exists, but it is unwieldy — nested radicals.
P(cos 87°, sin 87°) ≈ (0.0523, 0.9986)
P(cos 87°, sin 87°) ≈ (0.0523, 0.9986)
Highlighted: the projection on the x-axis — cosine, x ≈ 0.0523.
See Also
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Cosine of nearby angles
FAQ
What is cos 87°?
cos 87° ≈ 0.0523
Is there an exact value of cos 87°?
Yes: 87° is a multiple of 3°, and the values of such angles can be written with square roots — but the expression is unwieldy, with nested radicals built from the values of 18° and 15° (3° = 18° − 15°). In practice the decimal is used: cos 87° ≈ 0.0523.
Why does a calculator show 0.5698 for cos 87?
The calculator is in radian mode (RAD): it takes cos 87 as the cosine of 87 radians, cos 87 rad ≈ 0.5698. Switch it to degrees (DEG): cos 87° ≈ 0.0523. In radians the value is never undefined: π is irrational, so a whole number of radians never lands exactly on an axis.
See Also
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- Cos 78 Degrees: Cosine of 78° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 79 Degrees: Cosine of 79° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 80 Degrees: Cosine of 80° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 81 Degrees: Cosine of 81° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 82 Degrees: Cosine of 82° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 83 Degrees: Cosine of 83° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 84 Degrees: Cosine of 84° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 85 Degrees: Cosine of 85° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 86 Degrees: Cosine of 86° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 88 Degrees: Cosine of 88° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 89 Degrees: Cosine of 89° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 90 Degrees: Cosine of 90° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 97 Degrees: Cosine of 97° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 98 Degrees: Cosine of 98° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 100 Degrees: Cosine of 100° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 101 Degrees: Cosine of 101° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 105 Degrees: Cosine of 105° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 106 Degrees: Cosine of 106° on the Unit Circle
- Cos 108 Degrees: Cosine of 108° on the Unit Circle
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