John D. Cook8/31/2024

Ancient accurate approximation for sine

John
This post started out as a Twitter thread. The text below is the same as that of the thread after correcting an error in the first part of the thread. I also added a footnote on a theorem the thread alluded to. *** The following approximation for sin(x) is remarkably accurate for 0 < x […] The post Ancient accurate approximation for sine first appeared on John D. Cook .