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Vercosine


The vercosine, written vercos(z) and also known as the "versed cosine," is a little-used trigonometric function defined by

vercos(z)=2cos^2(1/2z)
(1)
=1+cosz,
(2)

where cosz is the cosine.


See also

Covercosine, Coversine, Excosecant, Exsecant, Hacovercosine, Hacoversine, Havercosine, Haversine, Versine

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Vercosine." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Vercosine.html

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