Tan 5 Degrees
Sin, Cos, Tan, Cot of an Angle
What is tan 5°?
Answer
tan 5° ≈
0.0875
Angle in radians: 5° = π/36. The point of the angle is in quadrant I, where tangent is positive.
≈ — rounded to 4 decimal places. tan 5° can't be written with square roots: 5° is not a multiple of 3°.
tan 5° = sin 5° / cos 5° ≈ 0.0875
P(cos 5°, sin 5°) ≈ (0.9962, 0.0872)
T(1, tan 5°) ≈ (1, 0.0875) — where line OP meets the line x = 1.
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Tangent of nearby angles
FAQ
What is tan 5°?
tan 5° ≈ 0.0875
Why does tan 5° have no exact value?
A trigonometric value of a whole number of degrees can be written with square roots only when the angle is a multiple of 3°. 5° is not, so no such exact form exists; the value is used as a decimal: tan 5° ≈ 0.0875.
Why does a calculator show −3.3805 for tan 5?
The calculator is in radian mode (RAD): it takes tan 5 as the tangent of 5 radians, tan 5 rad ≈ −3.3805. Switch it to degrees (DEG): tan 5° ≈ 0.0875. In radians the value is never undefined: π is irrational, so a whole number of radians never lands exactly on an axis.
See Also
- Sin 450 Degrees: Sine of 450° on the Unit Circle
- Sin 540 Degrees: Sine of 540° on the Unit Circle
- Sin 570 Degrees: Sine of 570° on the Unit Circle
- Sin 690 Degrees: Sine of 690° on the Unit Circle
- Sin 720 Degrees: Sine of 720° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 0 Degrees: Tangent of 0° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 1 Degree: Tangent of 1° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 2 Degrees: Tangent of 2° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 3 Degrees: Tangent of 3° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 4 Degrees: Tangent of 4° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 6 Degrees: Tangent of 6° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 7 Degrees: Tangent of 7° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 8 Degrees: Tangent of 8° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 9 Degrees: Tangent of 9° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 10 Degrees: Tangent of 10° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 11 Degrees: Tangent of 11° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 12 Degrees: Tangent of 12° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 13 Degrees: Tangent of 13° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 14 Degrees: Tangent of 14° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 15 Degrees: Tangent of 15° on the Unit Circle
- Тангенс 5 градусов (tg 5°) на единичной окружности
- Tangente de 5 grados (tan 5°) en el círculo unitario
- Tangente de 5 graus (tg 5°) no ciclo trigonométrico