Saturday, September 17, 2005

Demise of the Cosine

An Australian mathematician has rewritten trigonometry. The sine, cosine and tangent are completely gone, taking with them the need for calculators and tables we've relied on to figure those. What's more, the new Rational Trigonometry is more accurate than the sine/cosine/tangent model we've been using for the past few millennia.

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