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The tangent has poles at and , so these are vertical asymptotes of . The zeros on the given interval are . Near zero, , so the graph starts with a horizontal tangent line.
Each of its three branches is increasing. Indeed
and the numerator starts at zero with derivative , so it is positive for . The first branch rises from zero to , the middle branch rises from through to , and the last rises from to .
Figure 1.
The three increasing tangent-product branches and their intersections with the right half of the circle
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