You can get a really good approximation of a sinusoidal curve from twelve equally-spaced line segments of slope 1/12, 2/12, 3/12, 3/12, 2/12, 1/12, -1/12, -2/12, -3/12, -3/12, -2/12, and -1/12, respectively.
This approximation, known as the rule of twelfths, rounds √3≈5/3 but otherwise uses exact values along the curve.
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