List of Trigonometric Identities - Historic Shorthands

Historic Shorthands

The versine, coversine, haversine, and exsecant were used in navigation. For example the haversine formula was used to calculate the distance between two points on a sphere. They are rarely used today.

Name(s) Abbreviation(s) Value
versed sine, versine

versed cosine, vercosine
coversed sine, coversine
coversed cosine, covercosine
half versed sine, haversine
half versed cosine, havercosine
half coversed sine, hacoversine
cohaversine
half coversed cosine, hacovercosine
cohavercosine
exterior secant, exsecant
exterior cosecant, excosecant
chord

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