A DERIVATION METHOD FOR THE EXACT VALUES OF SINE AND COSINE OF 1° AND ANY INTEGER DEGREE
A set of meticulously designed procedures and ingenious methods for calculating the exact values of sine/cosine for 1° and any integer degree has been discovered and constructed. By calculating the sine/cosine values for 3°, and then using the expansion formulas for sine/cosine of triple angles, a univariate cubic equation satisfied by the sine/cosine values of 1° is derived. Subsequently, the exact expressions for sin/cos 1° are determined using Cardano's formula and its discriminant rules. After calculating the exact values of sine/cosine for all integer degrees up to 45° in the form of 3k°, the exact expressions for sine/cosine of all angles in the form of 3k±1° are calculated, and a table of exact sine/cosine values for any integer degree is compiled.
Authors
- Jianxun Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3359-4880)
- Guoquan Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0128-3500)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Wuli yu gongcheng.
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.26599/phys.2025.9320243
- Primary Topic
- Numerical Methods and Algorithms
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00