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Sine Is a Mistranslation of a Sanskrit Bowstring

Aryabhata wrote half-chord. Arabic copied the sound. Latin translated the wrong Arabic word. That is why it is called sine.

Every student who has ever written sin has written a Latin word for bay that got there by mistake.

What Aryabhata wrote

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