Talk:Trigonometric functions: Difference between revisions

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::Thank you for the quick response. Personally, I don't mind "invented" because, for me, it is pretty synonymous to "defined" in this context; but I will gladly go with "defined" if that is where the consensus is headed. (I don't like "introduced" because, to me, it sounds like it existed before and is now known more widely. The "now known more widely" is right, but the "existing before" doesn't sound right to me.) —[[User:Quantling|<span class="texhtml"><i>Q</i></span>uantling]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Quantling|talk]]&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Quantling|contribs]]) 15:32, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

::Yes, I agree that "discovering a proof" would be okay. —[[User:Quantling|<span class="texhtml"><i>Q</i></span>uantling]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Quantling|talk]]&nbsp;&#124;&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Quantling|contribs]]) 15:35, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

:It's usually better to not claim a "first" for specific characters, because such claims are nearly always wrong. The best is to just state exactly what we know: so-and-so specifically did such-and-such, and not speculate about whether or not anyone else had done so previously. One moreother phrasing that is usually accurate claimat the time (though can also become outdated) is something like "the earliest known X is found in Y" or "the oldest extant example of X is Y". –[[user:jacobolus|jacobolus]] [[user_talk:jacobolus|(t)]] 15:42, 14 February 2025 (UTC)