Addition Formulas for Sine and Cosine

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Reason: First publication. The addition formulas for the real sine and cosine, obtained from the derivatives of the two functions alone and so independent of the Pythagorean identity. · 451 chars · 2 deps · depth 14

The cosine and sine of a sum expand as $\cos a\cos x-\sin a\sin x$ and $\sin a\cos x+\cos a\sin x$ .

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In the setting of The Real Numbers: Standing Notation and Background, let $\cos$ and $\sin$ be the cosine and sine functions from $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}$ . Then the following hold for all $a,x\in\mathbb{R}$ .

1. (Cosine of a sum)¶

\cos(a+x)=\cos a\cos x-\sin a\sin x .

2. (Sine of a sum)¶

\sin(a+x)=\sin a\cos x+\cos a\sin x .

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