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Trigonometry studies relationships involving lengths and angles of triangles. It emerged from applying geometry to astronomy in the 3rd century BC, when astronomers first noted that the sides and angles of right-angled triangles have fixed relationships - if one side and one angle is known, all other angles and sides can be determined algorithmically. These calculations became defined as trigonometric functions, which are now pervasive in both pure and applied mathematics.

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Module 55

Trigonometry studies relationships involving lengths and angles of triangles. It emerged from applying geometry to astronomy in the 3rd century BC, when astronomers first noted that the sides and angles of right-angled triangles have fixed relationships - if one side and one angle is known, all other angles and sides can be determined algorithmically. These calculations became defined as trigonometric functions, which are now pervasive in both pure and applied mathematics.

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Trigonometry (from Greek trignon, "triangle" and metron, "measure"[1]) is a branch


of mathematics that studies relationships involving lengths and angles of triangles. The field
emerged in the Hellenistic world during the 3rd century BC from applications
of geometry to astronomical studies.[2]

The 3rd-century astronomers first noted that the lengths of the sides of a right-angle triangle and
the angles between those sides have fixed relationships: that is, if at least the length of one side and
the value of one angle is known, then all other angles and lengths can be determined algorithmically.
These calculations soon came to be defined as the trigonometric functions and today are pervasive
in both pure and applied mathematics:

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