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Which 18th-century Swiss mathematician is credited with standardizing the notation for trigonometric functions like sin, cos, and tan?

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Leonhard Euler

Euler helped establish modern mathematical notation and the treatment of trigonometric quantities as functions. Albert Girard had used the abbreviations sin, cos, and tan in his work on trigonometry in the 17th century, before Euler popularized them.

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