Brahmagupta in his chapter 2 of his book, provided a sine table. He wrote,
The sines: The Progenitors, twins, Ursa Major, the Vedas, the gods, fires, flavors, dice, the moon, the sky, the moon, arrows, sun…..”
He used the above objects to represent digits of place-value numerals. Progenitors represent 14 progenitors in Indian cosmology, twins means 2, Ursa Major represents the seven stars of Ursa Major or 7, Vedas refers to the 4 Vedas or 4, dice represents the number of sides of the traditional die or 6, and so on. He gave the sine table with 3270 as radius and calculated 3270 sin(π⁄48).
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