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CSC Trigonometric Cosecant Function

Usage

Computes the csc function for its argument. The general syntax for its use is

  y = csc(x)

where x is an n-dimensional array of numerical type. Integer types are promoted to the double type prior to calculation of the csc function. Output y is of the same size and type as the input x, (unless x is an integer, in which case y is a double type).

Function Internals

Mathematically, the csc function is defined for all arguments as

$\displaystyle \csc x \equiv \frac{1}{\sin x}.
$

Example

The following piece of code plots the real-valued csc(2 pi x) function over the interval of [-1,1]:

--> t = linspace(-1,1,1000);
--> plot(t,csc(2*pi*t))
--> axis([-1,1,-10,10]);

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Samit K. Basu 2005-03-16