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VERTICAL ASYMPTOTES
The tangent function has something called vertical asymptotes, which are
invisible vertical lines that the function approaches, but never crosses. To find the
two consecutive vertical asymptotes of a tangent function you can solve the two
equations = − and =
2 2
Consider the graph of the function = tan 0.5
You can see from the graph that there are vertical asymptotes at − and . You
could have also used the equations to obtain this information.
0.5 = − = − and 0.5 = =
0.5 0.5
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