Tan 79 Degrees
Sin, Cos, Tan, Cot of an Angle
What is tan 79°?
Answer
tan 79° ≈
5.1446
Angle in radians: 79° = 79π/180. The point of the angle is in quadrant I, where tangent is positive.
≈ — rounded to 4 decimal places. tan 79° can't be written with square roots: 79° is not a multiple of 3°.
tan 79° = sin 79° / cos 79° ≈ 5.1446
P(cos 79°, sin 79°) ≈ (0.1908, 0.9816)
T(1, tan 79°) ≈ (1, 5.1446) — where line OP meets the line x = 1; T is beyond the drawing, the arrow points to it.
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FAQ
What is tan 79°?
tan 79° ≈ 5.1446
Why does tan 79° 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°. 79° is not, so no such exact form exists; the value is used as a decimal: tan 79° ≈ 5.1446.
Why does a calculator show 0.4957 for tan 79?
The calculator is in radian mode (RAD): it takes tan 79 as the tangent of 79 radians, tan 79 rad ≈ 0.4957. Switch it to degrees (DEG): tan 79° ≈ 5.1446. 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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