Archaic or variant plural of cosin; older spelling of cosines used in historical mathematical texts.
From cosin (archaic cosine) + -s (plural). This spelling appears in mathematics texts from the 17th and 18th centuries before standardization.
Old scientific papers sometimes look like they're in a foreign language because of spelling differences—'cosins' and 'cosines' are the same thing, just from different eras.
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