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@article{Folkerts2015JostBM,
  title={Jost B\"urgi's Method for Calculating Sines},
  author={Menso Folkerts and Dieter Launert and Andreas Berthold Thom},
  journal={arXiv: History and Overview},
  year={2015},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:119326088}
}

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