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The Pythagorean Identity for Sine and Cosine

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Reason: First publication. The Pythagorean identity for the real sine and cosine, together with the resulting bound of $1$ on the absolute value of each. · 491 chars · 2 deps · depth 14

The sum of the squares of the cosine and the sine is 11 everywhere; consequently both functions are bounded in absolute value by 11.

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In the setting of The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background, let cos\cos and sin\sin be the cosine and sine functions from R\mathbb{R} to R\mathbb{R}, and let t2=ttt^{2}=tt as in The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background §numbers. Then the following hold for every xRx\in\mathbb{R}.

1. (The identity)

(cosx)2+(sinx)2=1.(\cos x)^{2}+(\sin x)^{2}=1 .

2. (Bounds) cosx1|\cos x|\le1 and sinx1|\sin x|\le1.

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