A New Approach to Rational Values of Trigonometric Functions

Abstract: It is well known that sin(api/b), cos(api/b), etc., are only rational numbers for a few select integers a and b. We show that this is equivalent to the fact that only for d = 1,2,3,4, and 6 is the primitive dth root of unity of degree 2 over Q.

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