A Problem (Q4345035)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1036779
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1036779 |
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A Problem (English)
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17 July 1997
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trigonometric functions
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series expansion
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0.6834023594856262
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0.6565980315208435
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The problem discussed is to expand \(\sin x\) and \(\cos x\) into power series, using from calculus only the facts that \(\lim_{x\to 0}(\sin x)/x= 1\) and \(\lim_{m\to\infty}(x^m)/m!= 0\). The author gives the very elegant geometric solution which he learned in 1935 as an eight grade pupil from his teacher Yakov Stapanovich Chakovsky, who unfortunately perished during Stalin's reign of terror of the later 1930s.
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