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A healthy amount of skepticism is fair, especially since Wildberger is a fairly odd duck. But the kind of trigonometry Wildberger proposes does work: you can us
by ksenzee 9y ago
A healthy amount of skepticism is fair, especially since Wildberger is a fairly odd duck. But the kind of trigonometry Wildberger proposes does work: you can use it to figure the height of a ziggurat. So it's conceivable that the Babylonians discovered it and used it.