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The secant of an angle is a trigonometrical function. If the secant of angle B is known, then the hypotenuse can be found given the length of the adjacent side, or the adjacent side can be found from the hypotenuse.

In trigonometry, the function of a given angle in a right-angled triangle, obtained by dividing the length of the hypotenuse (the longest side) by the length of the side adjacent to the angle. It is the reciprocal of the cosine (sec = 1/cos).



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