Natural values of the trigonometric functions

Angle in Angle in            
Radians Degrees Sin Cos Tan Cot Sec Csc
0 0 0 1 0 $ \infty $ 1 $ \infty $
$ \frac{\pi}{6}$ 30 $ \frac{1}{2}$ $ \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$ $ \frac{\sqrt{3}}{3}$ $ \sqrt{3}$ $ \frac{2\sqrt{3}}{3}$ $ 2$
$ \frac{\pi}{4}$ $ 45$ $ \frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}$ $ \frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}$ 1 1 $ \sqrt{2}$ $ \sqrt{2}$
$ \frac{\pi}{3}$ 60 $ \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}$ $ \frac{1}{2}$ $ \sqrt{3}$ $ \frac{\sqrt{3}}{3}$ 2 $ \frac{2\sqrt{3}}{3}$
$ \frac{\pi}{2}$ 90 1 0 $ \infty $ 0 $ \infty $ 1
$ \pi$ 180 0 -1 0 $ \infty $ -1 $ \infty $
$ \frac{3\pi}{2}$ 270 -1 0 $ \infty $ 0 $ \infty $ -1
$ 2\pi$ 360 0 1 0 $ \infty $ 1 $ \infty $

Angle in Angle in
Radians Degrees Sin Cos Tan Cot
.0000 0 .0000 1.0000 .0000 Inf. 90 1.5708
.0175 1 .0175 .9998 .0175 57.290 89 1.5533
.0349 2 .0349 .9994 .0349 28.636 88 1.5359
.0524 3 .0523 .9986 .0524 19.081 87 1.5184
.0698 4 .0698 .9976 .0699 14.300 86 1.5010
.0873 5 .0872 .9962 .0875 11.430 85 1.4835
.1745 10 .1736 .9848 .1763 5.671 80 1.3963
.2618 15 .2588 .9659 .2679 3.732 75 1.3090
.3491 20 .3420 .9397 .3640 2.747 70 1.2217
.4863 25 .4226 .9063 .4663 2.145 65 1.1345
.5236 30 .5000 .8660 .5774 1.732 60 1.0472
.6109 35 .5736 .8192 .7002 1.428 55 .9599
.6981 40 .6428 .7660 .8391 1.192 50 .8727
.7854 45 .7071 .7071 1.0000 1.000 45 .7854
Angle in Angle in
Cos Sin Cot Tan Degrees Radians

You can create a table like this in Sage:

[fontsize=\scriptsize,fontfamily=courier,fontshape=tt,frame=single,label=\sage]

sage: RR15 = RealField(15)
sage: rads1 = [n*0.0175 for n in range(1,6)]
sage: rads2 = [0.0875+n*0.0875 for n in range(1,9)]
sage: rads = rads1+rads2
sage: trigs = ["sin", "cos", "tan", "cot"]
sage: tbl = [[eval(x+"(%s)"%y) for x in trigs] for y in rads]
sage: tbl = [[RR15(eval(x+"(%s)"%y)) for x in trigs] for y in rads]
sage: print Matrix(tbl)
[0.01750  0.9998 0.01750   57.14]
[0.03499  0.9994 0.03502   28.56]
[0.05247  0.9986 0.05255   19.03]
[0.06994  0.9976 0.07011   14.26]
[0.08739  0.9962 0.08772   11.40]
[ 0.1741  0.9847  0.1768   5.656]
[ 0.2595  0.9658  0.2687   3.722]
[ 0.3429  0.9394  0.3650   2.740]
[ 0.4237  0.9058  0.4677   2.138]
[ 0.5012  0.8653  0.5792   1.726]
[ 0.5749  0.8182  0.7026   1.423]
[ 0.6442  0.7648  0.8423   1.187]
[ 0.7086  0.7056   1.004  0.9958]

The first column are the values of $ \sin(x)$ at $ x\in \{0.01750, 0.03500, ... %0.05250, 0.07000, 0.08750, 0.1750, 0.2625,
0.7875\}$ (measured in radians). The second, third and fourth rows are the corresponding values for $ \cos$, $ \tan$ and $ \cot$, respectively.

david joyner 2008-11-22