The parametrized curve $$ \left( \sec\theta+\csc\theta,\ 2\sqrt{2}\csc(2\theta) \right), \qquad \frac{10}{100} \le\theta\le\frac{142}{100} $$ looks to the naked eye like a straight line. The $y$-intercept is not $0$ and the slope is a number that I haven't tried to make sense out of (yet). (The factor $2\sqrt{2}$ was chosen only to make the minimum values of the two coordinates equal to each other.) The best-fitting straight line gives all residuals less than $0.08$, quite small!
Why?

