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When was the birth of the trigonometric functions?
Can you tell me when the birth of the trigonometric functions was?
The birth of trigonometry as we know it today is credited to the ancient Greeks, particularly the mathematician Hipparchus. He is considered to be the father of trigonometry and is believed to have created the first table of chord values, which is considered to be the first trigonometric table. This was around the 2nd century BCE.