Tan 84 Degrees

Sin, Cos, Tan, Cot of an Angle
Function
Angle (°)

What is tan 84°?

Answer

tan 84° ≈
9.5144

Angle in radians: 84° = 7π/15. The point of the angle is in quadrant I, where tangent is positive.

≈ — rounded to 4 decimal places. An exact form of tan 84° in square roots exists, but it is unwieldy — nested radicals.

tan 84° = sin 84° / cos 84° ≈ 9.5144

xyOP

P(cos 84°, sin 84°) ≈ (0.1045, 0.9945)

T(1, tan 84°) ≈ (1, 9.5144) — where line OP meets the line x = 1; T is beyond the drawing, the arrow points to it.

All four functions of 84°
FunctionExact valueDecimal
sin 84°—≈ 0.9945
cos 84°—≈ 0.1045
tan 84°—≈ 9.5144
cot 84°—≈ 0.1051

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FAQ

What is tan 84°?

tan 84° ≈ 9.5144

Is there an exact value of tan 84°?

Yes: 84° 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 84° ≈ 9.5144.

Why does a calculator show −1.0782 for tan 84?

The calculator is in radian mode (RAD): it takes tan 84 as the tangent of 84 radians, tan 84 rad ≈ −1.0782. Switch it to degrees (DEG): tan 84° ≈ 9.5144. In radians the value is never undefined: π is irrational, so a whole number of radians never lands exactly on an axis.