TAN

 

Use to give the tangent of an angle.

 

In a right angled triangle, the tangent of an angle is the length of the opposite side (O) divided by the length of the adjacent side (A).

 

tanx = O/A

 

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So for an example we could transpose the formula to find either A or O if we know the angle x.

 

O = A * tanx or A = O/tanx

 

In the software we would enter the following for the values where A is 15 and O is 26 and x is 60 degrees

 

=(TAN(60))*15 and =26/(TAN(60))