Excel SEC Function

Description

The Excel SEC function returns the secant of an angle provided in radians.

Formula syntax

Arguments

Returns

The SEC function returns the secant of an angle provided in radians.

Errors

• 1. If argument number is outside the its scale (absolute value less than 2^27), the SEC function return #NUM! error value.
• 2. If argument number is non-numeric, the SEC function returns #VALUE! error value.
• 3. If argument number is zero, the SEC function returns #DIV/0! error value.

Remarks

The argument number in SEC is an angle in radians, if the number is provided in degrees, you need to convert it to radians. There are two methods on converting degrees to radians. Method 1, multiply the angle in degrees by PI()/180. Method 2, used RADIANS function to convert degrees to radians. For example, to get the SEC of 30 degrees, you can use one of formulas below:

• =SEC(30*PI()/180)
• =SEC(RADIANS(30))

Versions

Excel 2013 and later versions.

Usage and Examples

To get the secant of the angel provided in radians in cell B3, please use formula as this:

=SEC(B3)

Press Enter key to get the secant of the angle..

Also you can directly use the number in the formula:

=SEC(1)

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