• Politically_Normal_Work_Account [hy/hym]
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    4 months ago

    damn i was using this literally yesterday to figure out fabric dimensions. I'm sewing something MEDIEVAL, how did ye olde people do this without a calculator thonk

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      I think trig functions and identities have been known since Euclid, but idk if the knowledge was widespread to tailors/seamstresses and other craftspeople.