mathematics, tables of trigonometric functions are useful in a number of areas. Before the existence of pocket calculators, trigonometric tables were essential...
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Mathematical tables are lists of numbers showing the results of a calculation with varying arguments. Trigonometric tables were used in ancient Greece...
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earliest-known tables of values for trigonometric ratios (also called trigonometric functions) such as sine. Throughout history, trigonometry has been applied...
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/ 4 ) = 2 / 2 {\displaystyle \cos(\pi /4)={\sqrt {2}}/2} . While trigonometric tables contain many approximate values, the exact values for certain angles...
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trigonometric functions has a corresponding inverse function, and an analog among the hyperbolic functions. The oldest definitions of trigonometric functions...
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Sine and cosine (redirect from Sine (trigonometric function))
In mathematics, sine and cosine are trigonometric functions of an angle. The sine and cosine of an acute angle are defined in the context of a right triangle:...
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Papyrus) and Babylonian mathematics. Trigonometry was also prevalent in Kushite mathematics. Systematic study of trigonometric functions began in Hellenistic...
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In trigonometry, trigonometric identities are equalities that involve trigonometric functions and are true for every value of the occurring variables for...
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Chord (geometry) (redirect from Crd (trigonometry))
were used extensively in the early development of trigonometry. The first known trigonometric table, compiled by Hipparchus in the 2nd century BC, is...
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indicates how many times one number contains another Trigonometry Trigonometric functions Trigonometric identities Euler's formula Archimedes Aristarchus...
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the sine and other trigonometric functions have been used in Islamic mathematics and astronomy, reforming the production of sine tables. Khwarizmi and Habash...
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and where he collated Greek manuscripts for a handsome salary. The trigonometric tables that he created while living in Hungary, his Tabulae directionum...
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Georg Joachim Rheticus (section Trigonometry)
medical practitioner, and teacher. He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and as Nicolaus Copernicus's sole pupil. He facilitated the publication...
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Haversine formula (category Spherical trigonometry)
convenient enough that tables of haversine values and logarithms were included in 19th- and early 20th-century navigation and trigonometric texts. These days...
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textbooks of astronomy and trigonometry and a treatise that was never published: Harmonicon coeleste. In 1579, the trigonometric tables Canon mathematicus, seu...
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of trigonometric functions of angles related to 2 π / 7 {\displaystyle 2\pi /7} satisfy cubic equations. Given the cosine (or other trigonometric function)...
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columns. Āryabhaṭa's table is also not a set of values of the trigonometric sine function in a conventional sense; it is a table of the first differences...
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the dimensions of triangles) was published in 1608 which included trigonometric tables with another, improved, edition being published in 1612. Pitiscus...
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in math and physics Generating primes Generating set Generating trigonometric tables Other: Generated collection, in music theory Generate LA-NY, digital...
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trigonometric functions (occasionally also called antitrigonometric, cyclometric, or arcus functions) are the inverse functions of the trigonometric functions...
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Fourier series (redirect from Trigonometric sum)
of a periodic function into a sum of trigonometric functions. The Fourier series is an example of a trigonometric series. By expressing a function as a...
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History of logarithms (section Tables of logarithms)
pages of tables of trigonometric functions and their natural logarithms. These tables greatly simplified calculations in spherical trigonometry, which are...
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mathematician in Europe to use decimal positional fractions for his trigonometric tables, at the same time as Al-Kashi in Samarkand. He was also probably...
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Quadratic equation (section Trigonometric solution)
using a different trigonometric form. To illustrate, let us assume we had available seven-place logarithm and trigonometric tables, and wished to solve...
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satellite were initially calculated using arithmometers and six-digit trigonometric tables. More complex calculations were carried out on a newly-installed...
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functions, such as exponential functions, logarithms, and trigonometric functions. These tables were eventually published in a 28-volume set by Columbia...
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others. He developed trigonometry and constructed trigonometric tables, and he solved several problems of spherical trigonometry. With his solar and lunar...
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no systematic trigonometry had resulted. Then, presumably during the second half of the second century B.C., the first trigonometric table apparently was...
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divisors Table of integrals Table of mathematical symbols Table of prime factors Taylor series Timeline of mathematics Trigonometric identities Truth table...
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of Ptolemy (c. AD 90–168), a landmark astronomical treatise whose trigonometric tables would be used by astronomers for the next thousand years. Ptolemy...
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