Ptolemy's table of chords

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Ptolemy's table of chords is an ancient mathematical construct from Ptolemy's work in the realm of astronomy and trigonometry. In his work "Almagest" (or "Mathematics of the Stars"), Ptolemy compiled a table that lists the lengths of chords in a circle corresponding to various angles. This table served as an early form of trigonometric values before the formal development of trigonometry.

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