Timeline for Folk stories and notions in mathematics that are likely false, inaccurate, apocryphal, or poorly founded?
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| Jun 27 at 18:06 | comment | added | ACR | There are many more, especially origins of sine, cosines etc. Earlier the terms were associated to Arabic words but now South Asians also claim ownership. | |
| Jun 27 at 17:59 | comment | added | Georg Essl | Nice one! As someone who uses sinc functions in signal interpolations I may well have committed this "cardinal sin". | |
| Jun 27 at 17:54 | history | answered | ACR | CC BY-SA 4.0 |