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  Benjamin Banneker and the Law of Sines

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John F. Mahoney

February 2005, Volume 98, Issue 6, Page 390

Abstract:
This article shows how Benjamin Banneker, the African American mathematician, used the Law of Sines more than 200 years ago. It contains an activity to be used with precalculus students to review logarithms and the Law of Sines.

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