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  2. cis (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    cis is a mathematical notation defined by cis x = cos x + i sin x, [nb 1] where cos is the cosine function, i is the imaginary unit and sin is the sine function. x is the argument of the complex number (angle between line to point and x-axis in polar form).

  3. C mathematical functions - Wikipedia

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    The type-generic macros that correspond to a function that is defined for only real numbers encapsulates a total of 3 different functions: float, double and long double variants of the function. The C++ language includes native support for function overloading and thus does not provide the <tgmath.h> header even as a compatibility feature.

  4. Function pointer - Wikipedia

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    The program operates by having function main call function compute_sum twice, passing it a pointer to the library function sin the first time, and a pointer to function cos the second time. Function compute_sum in turn invokes one of the two functions indirectly by dereferencing its function pointer argument funcp multiple times, adding ...

  5. Sine and cosine - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, sine and cosine are trigonometric functions of an angle.The sine and cosine of an acute angle are defined in the context of a right triangle: for the specified angle, its sine is the ratio of the length of the side that is opposite that angle to the length of the longest side of the triangle (the hypotenuse), and the cosine is the ratio of the length of the adjacent leg to that ...

  6. Chebyshev polynomials - Wikipedia

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    That cos nx is an n th-degree polynomial in cos x can be seen by observing that cos nx is the real part of one side of de Moivre's formula: ⁡ + ⁡ = (⁡ + ⁡). The real part of the other side is a polynomial in cos x and sin x , in which all powers of sin x are even and thus replaceable through the identity cos 2 x + sin 2 x = 1 .

  7. Trigonometric functions - Wikipedia

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    The sine and the cosine functions, for example, are used to describe simple harmonic motion, which models many natural phenomena, such as the movement of a mass attached to a spring and, for small angles, the pendular motion of a mass hanging by a string. The sine and cosine functions are one-dimensional projections of uniform circular motion.

  8. Computational complexity of mathematical operations - Wikipedia

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    The elementary functions are constructed by composing arithmetic operations, the exponential function (), the natural logarithm (), trigonometric functions (,), and their inverses. The complexity of an elementary function is equivalent to that of its inverse, since all elementary functions are analytic and hence invertible by means of Newton's ...

  9. Trigonometry - Wikipedia

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    The sine and cosine functions are fundamental to the theory of periodic functions, [63] such as those that describe sound and light waves. Fourier discovered that every continuous , periodic function could be described as an infinite sum of trigonometric functions.