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by kazinator 1363 days ago
> Because you’re obscuring the connection of sin/cos with their hyperbolic counterparts.

Only because we forgot the name change: these are supposed to to be nsin and ncos.

Remember also that people use sin and cos with 360-degree degrees just fine; and don't worry about wrecking the connection to the hyperbolic counterparts --- and without changing the names, either.