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Sūrya Siddhānta

Indian astronomical textbook

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sine tabulation

  • Babylonian mathematical tablet
    In mathematics: Origins

    …of an astronomical handbook, the Surya Siddhanta, had tabulated the sine function (unknown in Greece) for every 33/4° of arc from 33/4° to 90°. (See South Asian mathematics.)

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  • In trigonometry table

    …definition) is found in the Surya Siddhanta, a Hindu astronomical handbook from the 4th or 5th century ad.

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