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Note on the Nature of Trigonometry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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Trigonometry , like most abstract sciences, has both an operational side and a quantitative side.
The operational side is dominated by the hypothesis that a function f(x) exists which has the property
It is from this that the usual rules for operating with the trigonometric functions are deduced.
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