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  2. List of trigonometric identities - Wikipedia

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    A formula for computing the trigonometric identities for the one-third angle exists, but it requires finding the zeroes of the cubic equation 4x 3 − 3x + d = 0, where is the value of the cosine function at the one-third angle and d is the known value of the cosine function at the full angle.

  3. Small-angle approximation - Wikipedia

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    The sine and tangent small-angle approximations are used in relation to the double-slit experiment or a diffraction grating to develop simplified equations like the following, where y is the distance of a fringe from the center of maximum light intensity, m is the order of the fringe, D is the distance between the slits and projection screen ...

  4. Rifleman's rule - Wikipedia

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    One can calculate using standard ... This expression can be expanded using the double-angle formula for ... (see Equation 1) and simplify the expression in ...

  5. Proofs of trigonometric identities - Wikipedia

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    The proofs given in this article use these definitions, and thus apply to non-negative angles not greater than a right angle. For greater and negative angles , see Trigonometric functions . Other definitions, and therefore other proofs are based on the Taylor series of sine and cosine , or on the differential equation f ″ + f = 0 ...

  6. Fence (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    A fence may be finite, or it may be formed by an infinite alternating sequence extending in both directions. The incidence posets of path graphs form examples of fences. A linear extension of a fence is called an alternating permutation; André's problem of counting the number of different linear extensions has been studied since the 19th ...

  7. Tangent half-angle substitution - Wikipedia

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    The tangent of half an angle is important in spherical trigonometry and was sometimes known in the 17th century as the half tangent or semi-tangent. [2] Leonhard Euler used it to evaluate the integral ∫ d x / ( a + b cos ⁡ x ) {\textstyle \int dx/(a+b\cos x)} in his 1768 integral calculus textbook , [ 3 ] and Adrien-Marie Legendre described ...

  8. Goat grazing problem - Wikipedia

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    Because the "sweep" of the area under the involute is bounded by a tangent line (see diagram and derivation below) which is not the boundary (¯) between overlapping areas, the decomposition of the problem results in four computable areas: a half circle whose radius is the tether length (A 1); the area "swept" by the tether over an angle of 2 ...

  9. Stewart's theorem - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of Stewart's theorem. Let a, b, c be the lengths of the sides of a triangle. Let d be the length of a cevian to the side of length a.If the cevian divides the side of length a into two segments of length m and n, with m adjacent to c and n adjacent to b, then Stewart's theorem states that + = (+).