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Ptolemy's table of chords
Ptolemy's Almagest contains a table of chords that effectively served as the world's only comprehensive trigonometric table for over a millennium. In modern form it looks like this:
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Print cos(2π/17) exactly
One way to construct a regular heptadecagon starts with drawing a horizontal line of length 1 from the center to a vertex. Then the distance along that line from ...
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Help me with trigonometry!
Thank you guys so much for your help with calculus. Now I need some help with my upcoming trigonometry test.
On the test, I'll need to simplify expressions. I’ll be given input like ...
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