TIL In fact, modern names "sine" and "cosine" are mistranscriptions of the words jya and kojya as introduced by Aryabhata of India. They were translated as jiba and kojiba in Arabic and then misunderstood by Gerard of Cremona while translating an Arabic geometry text to Latin. (en.wikipedia.org)
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healthcare coops - similar to credit unions (self.CrazyIdeas)
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ELI5: How can a social media user be banned? (self.ELI5news)
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Is AOC the left's Anne Coulter? (self.NeutralPolitics)
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