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Old June 15th, 2008, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris L T521 View Post
Adding/Changing something to this:

A mnemonic that is sometimes used for the signs is:

All - All six (sin, cos, tan, sec, csc, and cot) are positive in QI
Students - Only sin and csc is positive in QII
Take - Only tan and cot is positive in QIII
Calculus - Only cos and sec is positive in QIV
Thanks. I'm not sure why I didn't mention the others, but being reciprocals, the mnemonic certainly holds for them as well.
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