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Trigonometry

Trigonometry studies relationships between side lengths and angles of triangles. It emerged from applications of geometry to astronomy and was used in areas like geodesy and navigation. Trigonometry has many identities that are used to simplify or solve expressions.

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Trigonometry

Trigonometry studies relationships between side lengths and angles of triangles. It emerged from applications of geometry to astronomy and was used in areas like geodesy and navigation. Trigonometry has many identities that are used to simplify or solve expressions.

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Trigonometry 

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


of mathematics that studies relationships between side 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 Greeks focused on the calculation of chords, while
mathematicians in India created the earliest-known tables of values for trigonometric ratios (also
called trigonometric functions) such as sine.[3]
Throughout history, trigonometry has been applied in areas such as geodesy, surveying, celestial
mechanics, and navigation.[4]
Trigonometry is known for its many identities. These trigonometric identities[5][6] are commonly used
for rewriting trigonometrical expressions with the aim to simplify an expression, to find a more useful
form of an expression, or to solve an equation.

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