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Who first wrote the law of cosines using algebraic notation, in the 16th century?
AFrançois Viète
BJamshid al-Kashi
CRegiomontanus
DIsaac Newton
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. François Viète
Viète was the first to write the theorem in algebraic notation.
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