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Trigonometric Fun (Posted on 2004-12-06) Difficulty: 4 of 5
Show that cos(π/7) - cos(2π/7) + cos(3π/7) = 1/2.

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Arbitrary Evaluation | Comment 2 of 7 |

Perhaps someone will be so kind as to explain this one to me. I am thinking that n can be any number, so I arbitrarily choose 35 and observe hierarchy and do not get that cos5-cos10+cos15 = 1/2.

I'm not familiar with the principle involved but if such a thing does exist then wouldn't it be a modulus behaviour based on the cyclic properties of sine and cosine functions?

Thank you. Hugs. -CeeAnne-


  Posted by CeeAnne on 2004-12-06 21:20:43
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