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:::::::::: This is my read, and parts of "Definitions in analysis" could be reorganized into that section, like Euler's formula, with Bourbaki's definition left in the analysis section. [[User:Tito Omburo|Tito Omburo]] ([[User talk:Tito Omburo|talk]]) 13:10, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
:::::::::No, it should clearly not be the first thing in the article. It belongs in the second half of the page. –[[user:jacobolus|jacobolus]] [[user_talk:jacobolus|(t)]] 15:04, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
== Are they "discovered" ==
Parts of the article refer to the historical "discovery" of various trigonometric functions. Is it better to say something along the lines of "first defined by"? To me "discovery" means that the functions already existed and then were found, but I think of mathematical concepts as useful definitions rather than fundamentally already existing. For example, is it possible to discover the function "{{math|1=''Q''uantling(''x'') = tan(''x'') − 0.193000669241688266320}}", or am I the first to have defined it? —[[User:Quantling|<span class="texhtml"><i>Q</i></span>uantling]] ([[User talk:Quantling|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Quantling|contribs]]) 15:19, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
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