secant line

line that intersects a curve at least twice
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secant line
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secant line

Summary

secant line ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (197 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • secant line's image is recorded as Bhedika-formula.png[2].
  • secant line's subclass of is recorded as line[3].
  • secant line's Commons category is recorded as Circle and lines[4].
  • secant line's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01k2_b[5].
  • secant line's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[6].
  • secant line's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • secant line's different from is recorded as Q12159565[8].
  • secant line's MathWorld ID is recorded as SecantLine[9].
  • secant line's NE.se ID is recorded as sekant[10].
  • secant line's NE.se ID is recorded as sekant-(secans-funktion)[11].
  • secant line's Treccani ID is recorded as secante[12].
  • secant line's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as secant-lines[13].
  • secant line's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as sekant[14].
  • secant line's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as sekante-geometrie[15].
  • secant line's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[16].
  • secant line's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 31461429[17].
  • secant line's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/3755[18].
  • secant line's Lex ID is recorded as sekant[19].
  • secant line's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 할선[20].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for secant line include secant method[21], a root-finding algorithm[22].

Why It Matters

secant line ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (197 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23]

Entities named for it include secant method[21], a root-finding algorithm[22].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [21] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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