Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c8.s1.4

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c8.s1.4

where A, B, C are the angles of a spherical triangle and a, b, c are the corresponding opposite sides. The Indian astronomers employed the sine function principally, and the versed sine occasionally. Sometimes they have used the sine of the complementary angle rather than the cosine function.

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