IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the mid-twentieth century, ...

Astronomers prepared tables of trigonometric functions (especially for triangles on a sphere) from ancient times. With the introduction of the printing press, and the rapid decrease in the cost of ...

THE publication of these tables helps to mark a change in the use of logarithms, both for teaching and practical purposes. Nowadays most teachers use four-figure tables for teaching purposes, even in ...

PERHAPS the best way of treating this work, which does not contain a single word of explanation, will be to give a summary of the tables contained in it. First we have proportional parts of all ...

Founded in 1888, to further mathematical research and scholarship, the 30,000-member American Mathematical Society provides programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses, ...

It's long been accepted that the ancient Greeks were responsible for developing the mathematical concept of trigonometry, but a new discovery indicates they weren't the first to figure it out after ...

In this brief communication, tables for the trigonometric functions, sine, cosine, and versine, are explored as they appear in sets of medieval Hebrew astronomical tables. Based on this preliminary ...

In this post, we will show you how to use the Quotient function in Microsoft Excel It is a Math and Trigonometry function used to return the integer portion of a division. What is a QUOTIENT function ...

The ROUNDDOWN function is a Math and Trigonometry function in Microsoft Excel, and its purpose is to round a number down towards zero. The formula for the ROUNDDOWN function is ROUNDDOWN(number, ...