Aristarchus' inequality
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Aristarchus' inequality (after the Greek astronomer and mathematician Aristarchus of Samos; c. 310 – c. 230 BCE) is a law of trigonometry which states that if α and β are acute angles (i.e. between 0 and a right angle) and β < α then
Ptolemy used the first of these inequalities while constructing his table of chords.[1]
Notes and references
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