Tan 78 Degrees
Sin, Cos, Tan, Cot of an Angle
What is tan 78°?
Answer
tan 78° ≈
4.7046
Angle in radians: 78° = 13π/30. The point of the angle is in quadrant I, where tangent is positive.
≈ — rounded to 4 decimal places. An exact form of tan 78° in square roots exists, but it is unwieldy — nested radicals.
tan 78° = sin 78° / cos 78° ≈ 4.7046
P(cos 78°, sin 78°) ≈ (0.2079, 0.9781)
T(1, tan 78°) ≈ (1, 4.7046) — where line OP meets the line x = 1; T is beyond the drawing, the arrow points to it.
See Also
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Tangent of nearby angles
FAQ
What is tan 78°?
tan 78° ≈ 4.7046
Is there an exact value of tan 78°?
Yes: 78° 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: tan 78° ≈ 4.7046.
Why does a calculator show −0.5992 for tan 78?
The calculator is in radian mode (RAD): it takes tan 78 as the tangent of 78 radians, tan 78 rad ≈ −0.5992. Switch it to degrees (DEG): tan 78° ≈ 4.7046. In radians the value is never undefined: π is irrational, so a whole number of radians never lands exactly on an axis.
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- Tan 74 Degrees: Tangent of 74° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 75 Degrees: Tangent of 75° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 76 Degrees: Tangent of 76° on the Unit Circle
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- Tan 81 Degrees: Tangent of 81° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 82 Degrees: Tangent of 82° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 83 Degrees: Tangent of 83° on the Unit Circle
- Tan 84 Degrees: Tangent of 84° on the Unit Circle
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