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Problem in Trigonometry and Complex numbers
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Michael

Joined: 19 Jan 2004Posts: 17

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:45 pm    Post subject: Problem in Trigonometry and Complex numbers

How to show that
[cos(2pi/13)+cos(10pi/13)][cos(4pi/13)+cos(6pi/13)][cos(8pi/13)+cos(12pi/13)] = 1/8 ?

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Peter

Frequent VisitorJoined: 18 Jan 2004Posts: 110

Location: Hong Kong

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:20 am    Post subject: Trigonometry

= , by

, by using successively
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