Talk:Trigonometric number

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[edit] Neologism ?

The term "trigonometric number" appears to be a neologism. The result mentioned in the article is a version of Niven's theorem, but the only source I can find that calls these irrational numbers "trigonometric numbers" is this page at everthing₂, which I don't think is a reliabe source. I have added a prod template to the article. Gandalf61 (talk) 10:24, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

I was going to respond that it's not a neologism since it's in Niven's well-known expository book. But I'm not finding it there. I'm fairly sure I've seen it used in exactly this sense before, and the definition makes sense. Michael Hardy (talk) 14:48, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, the book I was looking at was Irrational Numbers. I'm going to try that other one. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:08, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Bingo. Chapter 5 of the book cited in the article is Trigonometric and Logarithmic Numbers. And the sense in which the term is used is exactly that of this article. Michael Hardy (talk) 15:16, 1 June 2008 (UTC)