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Lesson goal: The famous sine and cosine identity

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In the last lesson, you saw the computer display values for sin and cos. The results are always some long decimal number between -1 and 1. Strange huh? Here's a neat trigonometric identity you may have seen before. If you square the result of a sin and add it to the square of a cos, you'll always get the same number. Do you know what this number is? Try out this code and see. (Hint: This is an example of the famous identity

$\sin(x)^2+\cos(x)^2=1$ .

Now you try. Write some code to compute the $\sin^2(some-number)+\cos^2(some-number)$ . See what you always get.

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Lesson goal: The famous sine and cosine identity

Now you try. Write some code to compute the sin2(some−number)+cos2(some−number)\sin^2(some-number)+\cos^2(some-number). See what you always get.

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Now you try. Write some code to compute the $\sin^2(some-number)+\cos^2(some-number)$ . See what you always get.