[Chris Clemens]

Look at these two sentences.

The words “the arc whose sine is” are abbreviated as arcsine. We further shorten arcsine to arcsin.

I understand that I cannot ever contract arcsin because it is an abbreviated function name.

I don’t think that “sine” or either of the uses of “arcsine” are in a mathematical context, and therefore I can contract.

Am I correct? TIA bt

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[Chris Clemens]

You are correct. You may use contractions for unabbreviated function names in non-math context.

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