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Recently the geometry of quantum states has been under considerable development. Every good geometry deserves, if possible, an accompanying trigonometry. I will here introduce such a trigonometry to accompany the geometry of quantum states.

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Gustafson, K. Trigonometry of Quantum States. Found Phys 41, 450–465 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-010-9439-x

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