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Latest revision as of 20:44, July 13, 2016
Transcendental functions are special functions used by mathematicians and engineers, such as trigonometric and logarithmic functions, whose values cannot be worked out from a simple algebraic expression - they can only be worked out from an infinite series - they transcend algebra.[1]
References
- ↑ [1] Solving for transcendental functions with calculators