Shifting the argument by exchanges the sine and the cosine up to sign; iterating gives , and then invariance under every integer multiple of . The sine is positive on .
In the setting of The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background, let and be the cosine and sine functions from to , let be the real number of The Number Pi (i), and let be the set of integers. The number is positive, hence invertible, by claim 8 of Elementary Order Arithmetic in an Ordered Field, and we write . Then the following hold for every .
1. (Quarter turn)
2. (Half turn)
3. (Period)
4. (Integer multiples of the period) For every ,
in particular and .
5. (Positivity of the sine on a half period) If , then .
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