Timeline for answer to Why do we need so many trigonometric definitions? by David Richerby
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| Mar 29, 2018 at 20:54 | comment | added | David Richerby | @origimbo Obviously, the dispute you refer to is whether or not one should write $2\pi$, $(1+1)\pi$ or even just $\pi+\pi$. ;-) | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 20:36 | comment | added | origimbo | That strongly depends on what you're writing. My undergraduate maths course probably had fewer total uses of $8$ in it than uses of $\tan$. Of course $2\pi$ turned up quite frequently, which leads to another disputed definition... | |
| Mar 29, 2018 at 19:14 | history | answered | David Richerby | CC BY-SA 3.0 |