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%I #22 Dec 14 2017 03:44:07
%S 1,2,49,43,11,14,44,16,26,18,28,49,20,26,50,41,13,6,46,25,26,26,34,6,
%T 40,18,50,31,6,35,20,44,6,39,18,5,38,58,2,0,5,4,33,59,11,35,33,50,34,
%U 7,56,43,38,30,15,49,36,42,6,43,10,38,45,53,15,59,7,19,46
%N Base-60 (Babylonian or sexagesimal) expansion of sine of 1 degree.
%C The Fifteenth Century Persian mathematician Jamshid Al-Kashi was the first to calculate the value of sine of one degree correct to ten sexagesimal places (17 decimal digits) in his Risala al-Watar wa'l Jaib.
%H Mohammad K. Azarian, <a href="http://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2015volume15/FG201523.pdf">A Study of Risala al-Watar wa'l Jaib ("The Treatise on the Chord and Sine")</a>, Forum Geometricorum, Volume 15 (2015) 229-242. Mathematical Reviews, MR 3418854 (Reviewed), Zentralblatt MATH, Zbl 1328.01015.
%t RealDigits[Sin[1 Degree], 60, 200][[1]]
%Y Cf. A019810, A019812, A049469, A110937, A280189.
%K nonn,base,cons
%O 1,2
%A _Mohammad K. Azarian_, Dec 28 2016
%E More terms from _Jon E. Schoenfield_, Jan 13 2017