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The Pythagorean Identity for Sine and Cosine

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

Statement

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 (i). Then the following hold for every x∈Rx\in\mathbb{R}.

1. (The identity)

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

2. (Bounds) ∣cos⁡x∣≤1|\cos x|\le1 and ∣sin⁡x∣≤1|\sin x|\le1.

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