Cotangent
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Cotangent is a trigonometric function describing the ratio of the adjacent side to the opposite side in a right triangle. It is often abbreviated cotan.
<math>\cot \theta = \frac{\cos \theta}{\sin \theta} = \tan \left(\frac{\pi}{2} - \theta \right) = \frac{1}{\tan \theta} \,</math>