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Question 1042544: Can I please have your assistance? One of the largest issues in ancient mathematics was accuracy-nobody had calculators that went out ten decimal places, and accuracy generally got worse as the numbers got larger. Why did trigonometry allow for some questions to be answered very accurately, even if the numbers involved were very large? Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source):
