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Saturday, March 30, 2013

William Oughtred

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

William Oughtred who was born and baptised on March 5th in 1575. Among other things, he introduced the "×" symbol for multiplication and the abbreviations "sin" and "cos" for the sine and cosine functions.
 

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