Talk:Small-angle formula

These two pages should not be merged. They are logically separate from one another and are not very closely related. —This unsigned comment was added by Smeapancol (talk • contribs).


 * Could you explain what you mean? They are both local linearizations of trigonometric functions. That makes them very closely related in my opinion. —Keenan Pepper 00:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm an astronomer, and I went to look for the small angle approximation for a link to one of the articles I'm writing. I would never have thought to look for the small angle formula if I hadn't seen the suggestion that the pages should be merged. I think that the small angle formula page should be eliminated, but that the useful diagram should be added to the small angle approximation page. the conversion between arcseconds and radians is poorly explained here, and the tangent approximation seems to just fall from the sky. But the diagram is very good. David s graff 18:57, 17 June 2006 (UTC)