A couple more variations on an ancient theme
The Endeavour 2024-09-07
Summary:
I’ve written a couple posts on the approximation by the Indian astronomer Aryabhata (476–550). The approximation is accurate for x in [−π/2, π/2]. The first post collected a Twitter thread about the approximation into a post. The second looked at how far the coefficients in Aryabhata’s approximation are from the optimal approximation as a ratio […]
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