How do you find cot(-180)cot(180)?

1 Answer

The answer is: it does not exists.

The function y=cotxy=cotx would be writtend in this form:

cotx=1/tanx=1/(sinx/cosx)=cosx/sinxcotx=1tanx=1sinxcosx=cosxsinx.

So:

cot(-180°)=cos(-180°)/sin(-180°).

cos(-180°)=-1,
sin(-180°)=0.

cot(-180°)=1/0 that does not exists (or we can say that the function rarr+-oo).