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B\"urgi's "Kunstweg" - geometric approach

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Abstract

Placing regular 4n-sided polygons correctly, equations between sine and sums of sines show up -- exactly these equations are used in B\"urgi's method to approximate sines.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1602.08142,
  title  = {B\"urgi's "Kunstweg" - geometric approach},
  author = {Christian Riedweg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.08142},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures

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