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mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...
, sine and cosine are
trigonometric functions In mathematics, the trigonometric functions (also called circular functions, angle functions or goniometric functions) are real functions which relate an angle of a right-angled triangle to ratios of two side lengths. They are widely used in all ...
of an
angle In Euclidean geometry, an angle can refer to a number of concepts relating to the intersection of two straight Line (geometry), lines at a Point (geometry), point. Formally, an angle is a figure lying in a Euclidean plane, plane formed by two R ...
. The sine and cosine of an acute angle are defined in the context of a right triangle: for the specified angle, its sine is the ratio of the length of the side opposite that angle to the length of the longest side of the
triangle A triangle is a polygon with three corners and three sides, one of the basic shapes in geometry. The corners, also called ''vertices'', are zero-dimensional points while the sides connecting them, also called ''edges'', are one-dimension ...
(the hypotenuse), and the cosine is the
ratio In mathematics, a ratio () shows how many times one number contains another. For example, if there are eight oranges and six lemons in a bowl of fruit, then the ratio of oranges to lemons is eight to six (that is, 8:6, which is equivalent to the ...
of the length of the adjacent leg to that of the hypotenuse. For an angle \theta, the sine and cosine functions are denoted as \sin(\theta) and \cos(\theta). The definitions of sine and cosine have been extended to any real value in terms of the lengths of certain line segments in a
unit circle In mathematics, a unit circle is a circle of unit radius—that is, a radius of 1. Frequently, especially in trigonometry, the unit circle is the circle of radius 1 centered at the origin (0, 0) in the Cartesian coordinate system in the Eucli ...
. More modern definitions express the sine and cosine as infinite series, or as the solutions of certain differential equations, allowing their extension to arbitrary positive and negative values and even to
complex number In mathematics, a complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted , called the imaginary unit and satisfying the equation i^= -1; every complex number can be expressed in the for ...
s. The sine and cosine functions are commonly used to model periodic phenomena such as
sound In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the br ...
and light waves, the position and velocity of harmonic oscillators, sunlight intensity and day length, and average temperature variations throughout the year. They can be traced to the ''jyā'' and ''koṭi-jyā'' functions used in
Indian astronomy Astronomy has a long history in the Indian subcontinent, stretching from History of India, pre-historic to History of India (1947–present), modern times. Some of the earliest roots of Indian astronomy can be dated to the period of Indus Valle ...
during the Gupta period.


Elementary descriptions


Right-angled triangle definition

To define the sine and cosine of an acute angle \alpha , start with a right triangle that contains an angle of measure \alpha ; in the accompanying figure, angle \alpha in a right triangle ABC is the angle of interest. The three sides of the triangle are named as follows: * The ''opposite side'' is the side opposite to the angle of interest; in this case, it is a . * The ''hypotenuse'' is the side opposite the right angle; in this case, it is h . The hypotenuse is always the longest side of a right-angled triangle. * The ''adjacent side'' is the remaining side; in this case, it is b . It forms a side of (and is adjacent to) both the angle of interest and the right angle. Once such a triangle is chosen, the sine of the angle is equal to the length of the opposite side divided by the length of the hypotenuse, and the cosine of the angle is equal to the length of the adjacent side divided by the length of the hypotenuse: \sin(\alpha) = \frac, \qquad \cos(\alpha) = \frac. The other trigonometric functions of the angle can be defined similarly; for example, the
tangent In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is, intuitively, the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Leibniz defined it as the line through a pair of infinitely close points o ...
is the ratio between the opposite and adjacent sides or equivalently the ratio between the sine and cosine functions. The reciprocal of sine is cosecant, which gives the ratio of the hypotenuse length to the length of the opposite side. Similarly, the reciprocal of cosine is secant, which gives the ratio of the hypotenuse length to that of the adjacent side. The cotangent function is the ratio between the adjacent and opposite sides, a reciprocal of a tangent function. These functions can be formulated as: \begin \tan(\theta) &= \frac = \frac, \\ \cot(\theta) &= \frac = \frac, \\ \csc(\theta) &= \frac = \frac , \\ \sec(\theta) &= \frac = \frac . \end


Special angle measures

As stated, the values \sin(\alpha) and \cos(\alpha) appear to depend on the choice of a right triangle containing an angle of measure \alpha . However, this is not the case as all such triangles are similar, and so the ratios are the same for each of them. For example, each
leg A leg is a weight-bearing and locomotive anatomical structure, usually having a columnar shape. During locomotion, legs function as "extensible struts". The combination of movements at all joints can be modeled as a single, linear element cap ...
of the 45-45-90 right triangle is 1 unit, and its hypotenuse is \sqrt ; therefore, \sin 45^\circ = \cos 45^\circ = \frac . The following table shows the special value of each input for both sine and cosine with the domain between 0 < \alpha < \frac . The input in this table provides various unit systems such as degree, radian, and so on. The angles other than those five can be obtained by using a calculator.


Laws

The
law of sines In trigonometry, the law of sines (sometimes called the sine formula or sine rule) is a mathematical equation relating the lengths of the sides of any triangle to the sines of its angles. According to the law, \frac \,=\, \frac \,=\, \frac \,=\ ...
is useful for computing the lengths of the unknown sides in a triangle if two angles and one side are known. Given a triangle ABC with sides a , b , and c, and angles opposite those sides \alpha , \beta , and \gamma , the law states, \frac = \frac = \frac. This is equivalent to the equality of the first three expressions below: \frac = \frac = \frac = 2R, where R is the triangle's circumradius. The
law of cosines In trigonometry, the law of cosines (also known as the cosine formula or cosine rule) relates the lengths of the sides of a triangle to the cosine of one of its angles. For a triangle with sides , , and , opposite respective angles , , and (see ...
is useful for computing the length of an unknown side if two other sides and an angle are known. The law states, a^2 + b^2 - 2ab\cos(\gamma) = c^2 In the case where \gamma = \pi/2 from which \cos(\gamma) = 0, the resulting equation becomes the
Pythagorean theorem In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle. It states that the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite t ...
.


Vector definition

The
cross product In mathematics, the cross product or vector product (occasionally directed area product, to emphasize its geometric significance) is a binary operation on two vectors in a three-dimensional oriented Euclidean vector space (named here E), and ...
and
dot product In mathematics, the dot product or scalar productThe term ''scalar product'' means literally "product with a Scalar (mathematics), scalar as a result". It is also used for other symmetric bilinear forms, for example in a pseudo-Euclidean space. N ...
are operations on two vectors in
Euclidean vector space Euclidean space is the fundamental space of geometry, intended to represent physical space. Originally, in Euclid's ''Elements'', it was the three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, but in modern mathematics there are ''Euclidean spaces'' ...
. The sine and cosine functions can be defined in terms of the cross product and dot product. If \mathbb and \mathbb are vectors, and \theta is the angle between \mathbb and \mathbb , then sine and cosine can be defined as: \begin \sin (\theta) &= \frac, \\ \cos (\theta) &= \frac. \end


Analytic descriptions


Unit circle definition

The sine and cosine functions may also be defined in a more general way by using
unit circle In mathematics, a unit circle is a circle of unit radius—that is, a radius of 1. Frequently, especially in trigonometry, the unit circle is the circle of radius 1 centered at the origin (0, 0) in the Cartesian coordinate system in the Eucli ...
, a circle of radius one centered at the origin (0,0) , formulated as the equation of x^2 + y^2 = 1 in the
Cartesian coordinate system In geometry, a Cartesian coordinate system (, ) in a plane (geometry), plane is a coordinate system that specifies each point (geometry), point uniquely by a pair of real numbers called ''coordinates'', which are the positive and negative number ...
. Let a line through the origin intersect the unit circle, making an angle of \theta with the positive half of the axis. The and coordinates of this point of intersection are equal to \cos (\theta) and \sin (\theta) , respectively; that is, \sin (\theta) = y, \qquad \cos (\theta) = x. This definition is consistent with the right-angled triangle definition of sine and cosine when 0 < \theta < \frac because the length of the hypotenuse of the unit circle is always 1; mathematically speaking, the sine of an angle equals the opposite side of the triangle, which is simply the coordinate. A similar argument can be made for the cosine function to show that the cosine of an angle when 0 < \theta < \frac , even under the new definition using the unit circle.


Graph of a function and its elementary properties

Using the unit circle definition has the advantage of drawing a graph of sine and cosine functions. This can be done by rotating counterclockwise a point along the circumference of a circle, depending on the input \theta > 0 . In a sine function, if the input is \theta = \frac , the point is rotated counterclockwise and stopped exactly on the axis. If \theta = \pi , the point is at the circle's halfway. If \theta = 2\pi , the point returned to its origin. This results that both sine and cosine functions have the range between -1 \le y \le 1 . Extending the angle to any real domain, the point rotated counterclockwise continuously. This can be done similarly for the cosine function as well, although the point is rotated initially from the coordinate. In other words, both sine and cosine functions are periodic, meaning any angle added by the circumference's circle is the angle itself. Mathematically, \sin(\theta + 2\pi) = \sin(\theta), \qquad \cos(\theta + 2\pi) = \cos (\theta). A function f is said to be odd if f(-x) = -f(x) , and is said to be even if f(-x) = f(x) . The sine function is odd, whereas the cosine function is even. Both sine and cosine functions are similar, with their difference being shifted by \frac . This phase shift can be expressed as cos⁡(θ)=sin⁡(θ+π/2) or sin⁡(θ)=cos⁡(θ−π/2). This is distinct from the cofunction identities that follow below, which arise from right-triangle geometry and are not phase shifts: \begin \sin(\theta) &= \cos\left(\frac - \theta \right), \\ \cos(\theta) &= \sin\left(\frac - \theta \right). \end Zero is the only real fixed point of the sine function; in other words the only intersection of the sine function and the
identity function Graph of the identity function on the real numbers In mathematics, an identity function, also called an identity relation, identity map or identity transformation, is a function that always returns the value that was used as its argument, unc ...
is \sin(0)=0. The only real fixed point of the cosine function is called the Dottie number. The Dottie number is the unique real root of the equation \cos (x) = x. The decimal expansion of the Dottie number is approximately 0.739085.


Continuity and differentiation

The sine and cosine functions are infinitely differentiable. The derivative of sine is cosine, and the derivative of cosine is negative sine: \frac\sin(x) = \cos(x), \qquad \frac\cos(x) = -\sin(x). Continuing the process in higher-order derivative results in the repeated same functions; the fourth derivative of a sine is the sine itself. These derivatives can be applied to the first derivative test, according to which the monotonicity of a function can be defined as the inequality of function's first derivative greater or less than equal to zero. It can also be applied to second derivative test, according to which the concavity of a function can be defined by applying the inequality of the function's second derivative greater or less than equal to zero. The following table shows that both sine and cosine functions have concavity and monotonicity—the positive sign ( + ) denotes a graph is increasing (going upward) and the negative sign ( - ) is decreasing (going downward)—in certain intervals. This information can be represented as a Cartesian coordinates system divided into four quadrants. Both sine and cosine functions can be defined by using differential equations. The pair of (\cos \theta, \sin \theta) is the solution (x(\theta), y(\theta)) to the two-dimensional system of differential equations y'(\theta) = x(\theta) and x'(\theta) = -y(\theta) with the initial conditions y(0) = 0 and x(0) = 1. One could interpret the unit circle in the above definitions as defining the phase space trajectory of the differential equation with the given initial conditions. It can be interpreted as a phase space trajectory of the system of differential equations y'(\theta) = x(\theta) and x'(\theta) = -y(\theta) starting from the initial conditions y(0) = 0 and x(0) = 1.


Integral and the usage in mensuration

Their area under a curve can be obtained by using the
integral In mathematics, an integral is the continuous analog of a Summation, sum, which is used to calculate area, areas, volume, volumes, and their generalizations. Integration, the process of computing an integral, is one of the two fundamental oper ...
with a certain bounded interval. Their antiderivatives are: \int \sin(x)\,dx = -\cos(x) + C \qquad \int \cos(x)\,dx = \sin(x) + C, where C denotes the constant of integration. These antiderivatives may be applied to compute the mensuration properties of both sine and cosine functions' curves with a given interval. For example, the
arc length Arc length is the distance between two points along a section of a curve. Development of a formulation of arc length suitable for applications to mathematics and the sciences is a problem in vector calculus and in differential geometry. In the ...
of the sine curve between 0 and t is \int_0^t\!\sqrt\, dx =\sqrt \operatorname \left(t, \frac \right), where \operatorname(\varphi,k) is the incomplete elliptic integral of the second kind with modulus k. It cannot be expressed using
elementary function In mathematics, an elementary function is a function of a single variable (typically real or complex) that is defined as taking sums, products, roots and compositions of finitely many polynomial, rational, trigonometric, hyperbolic, a ...
s. In the case of a full period, its arc length is L = \frac + \frac = \frac+2\varpi \approx 7.6404\ldots where \Gamma is the
gamma function In mathematics, the gamma function (represented by Γ, capital Greek alphabet, Greek letter gamma) is the most common extension of the factorial function to complex numbers. Derived by Daniel Bernoulli, the gamma function \Gamma(z) is defined ...
and \varpi is the lemniscate constant.


Inverse functions

The
inverse function In mathematics, the inverse function of a function (also called the inverse of ) is a function that undoes the operation of . The inverse of exists if and only if is bijective, and if it exists, is denoted by f^ . For a function f\colon ...
of sine is arcsine or inverse sine, denoted as "arcsin", "asin", or \sin^ . The inverse function of cosine is arccosine, denoted as "arccos", "acos", or \cos^ . As sine and cosine are not
injective In mathematics, an injective function (also known as injection, or one-to-one function ) is a function that maps distinct elements of its domain to distinct elements of its codomain; that is, implies (equivalently by contraposition, impl ...
, their inverses are not exact inverse functions, but partial inverse functions. For example, \sin (0) = 0 , but also \sin (\pi) = 0 , \sin (2\pi) = 0 , and so on. It follows that the arcsine function is multivalued: \arcsin (0) = 0 , but also \arcsin (0) = \pi , \arcsin (0) = 2\pi , and so on. When only one value is desired, the function may be restricted to its principal branch. With this restriction, for each x in the domain, the expression \arcsin(x) will evaluate only to a single value, called its principal value. The standard range of principal values for arcsin is from \frac , and the standard range for arccos is from 0 to \pi . The inverse function of both sine and cosine are defined as: \theta = \arcsin \left( \frac \right) = \arccos \left( \frac \right), where for some integer k , \begin \sin(y) = x \iff & y = \arcsin(x) + 2\pi k , \text\\ & y = \pi - \arcsin(x) + 2\pi k \\ \cos(y) = x \iff & y = \arccos(x) + 2\pi k , \text\\ & y = - \arccos(x) + 2\pi k \end By definition, both functions satisfy the equations: \sin(\arcsin(x)) = x \qquad \cos(\arccos(x)) = x and \begin\arcsin(\sin(\theta)) = \theta\quad & \text\quad -\frac \leq \theta \leq \frac\\ \arccos(\cos(\theta)) = \theta\quad & \text\quad 0 \leq \theta \leq \pi\end


Other identities

According to
Pythagorean theorem In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle. It states that the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite t ...
, the squared hypotenuse is the sum of two squared legs of a right triangle. Dividing the formula on both sides with squared hypotenuse resulting in the
Pythagorean trigonometric identity The Pythagorean trigonometric identity, also called simply the Pythagorean identity, is an identity expressing the Pythagorean theorem in terms of trigonometric functions. Along with the sum-of-angles formulae, it is one of the basic relations ...
, the sum of a squared sine and a squared cosine equals 1: \sin^2 (\theta) + \cos^2(\theta) = 1. Sine and cosine satisfy the following double-angle formulas: \begin \sin(2\theta) &= 2\sin(\theta)\cos(\theta), \\ \cos(2\theta) &= \cos^2(\theta) - \sin^2(\theta) \\ &= 2\cos^2(\theta) - 1 \\ &= 1 - 2\sin^2(\theta) \end The cosine double angle formula implies that sin2 and cos2 are, themselves, shifted and scaled sine waves. Specifically, \sin^2(\theta) = \frac\qquad\cos^2(\theta) = \frac The graph shows both sine and sine squared functions, with the sine in blue and the sine squared in red. Both graphs have the same shape but with different ranges of values and different periods. Sine squared has only positive values, but twice the number of periods.


Series and polynomials

Both sine and cosine functions can be defined by using a
Taylor series In mathematics, the Taylor series or Taylor expansion of a function is an infinite sum of terms that are expressed in terms of the function's derivatives at a single point. For most common functions, the function and the sum of its Taylor ser ...
, a power series involving the higher-order derivatives. As mentioned in , the
derivative In mathematics, the derivative is a fundamental tool that quantifies the sensitivity to change of a function's output with respect to its input. The derivative of a function of a single variable at a chosen input value, when it exists, is t ...
of sine is cosine and that the derivative of cosine is the negative of sine. This means the successive derivatives of \sin(x) are \cos(x) , -\sin(x) , -\cos(x) , \sin(x) , continuing to repeat those four functions. The th derivative, evaluated at the point 0: \sin^(0)=\begin 0 & \text k=0 \\ 1 & \text k=1 \\ 0 & \text k=2 \\ -1 & \text k=3 \end where the superscript represents repeated differentiation. This implies the following Taylor series expansion at x = 0 . One can then use the theory of
Taylor series In mathematics, the Taylor series or Taylor expansion of a function is an infinite sum of terms that are expressed in terms of the function's derivatives at a single point. For most common functions, the function and the sum of its Taylor ser ...
to show that the following identities hold for all
real number In mathematics, a real number is a number that can be used to measure a continuous one- dimensional quantity such as a duration or temperature. Here, ''continuous'' means that pairs of values can have arbitrarily small differences. Every re ...
s x —where x is the angle in radians. More generally, for all
complex number In mathematics, a complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted , called the imaginary unit and satisfying the equation i^= -1; every complex number can be expressed in the for ...
s: \begin \sin(x) &= x - \frac + \frac - \frac + \cdots \\ &= \sum_^\infty \fracx^ \end Taking the derivative of each term gives the Taylor series for cosine: \begin \cos(x) &= 1 - \frac + \frac - \frac + \cdots \\ &= \sum_^\infty \fracx^ \end Both sine and cosine functions with multiple angles may appear as their
linear combination In mathematics, a linear combination or superposition is an Expression (mathematics), expression constructed from a Set (mathematics), set of terms by multiplying each term by a constant and adding the results (e.g. a linear combination of ''x'' a ...
, resulting in a polynomial. Such a polynomial is known as the trigonometric polynomial. The trigonometric polynomial's ample applications may be acquired in its interpolation, and its extension of a periodic function known as the
Fourier series A Fourier series () is an Series expansion, expansion of a periodic function into a sum of trigonometric functions. The Fourier series is an example of a trigonometric series. By expressing a function as a sum of sines and cosines, many problems ...
. Let a_n and b_n be any coefficients, then the trigonometric polynomial of a degree N —denoted as T(x) —is defined as: T(x) = a_0 + \sum_^N a_n \cos (nx) + \sum_^N b_n \sin (nx). The trigonometric series can be defined similarly analogous to the trigonometric polynomial, its infinite inversion. Let A_n and B_n be any coefficients, then the trigonometric series can be defined as: \frac A_0 + \sum_^\infty A_n \cos (nx) + B_n \sin (nx). In the case of a Fourier series with a given integrable function f , the coefficients of a trigonometric series are: \begin A_n &= \frac \int_0 ^ f(x) \cos (nx) \, dx, \\ B_n &= \frac \int_0 ^ f(x) \sin (nx) \, dx. \end


Complex numbers relationship


Complex exponential function definitions

Both sine and cosine can be extended further via
complex number In mathematics, a complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted , called the imaginary unit and satisfying the equation i^= -1; every complex number can be expressed in the for ...
, a set of numbers composed of both real and
imaginary number An imaginary number is the product of a real number and the imaginary unit , is usually used in engineering contexts where has other meanings (such as electrical current) which is defined by its property . The square (algebra), square of an im ...
s. For real number \theta , the definition of both sine and cosine functions can be extended in a
complex plane In mathematics, the complex plane is the plane (geometry), plane formed by the complex numbers, with a Cartesian coordinate system such that the horizontal -axis, called the real axis, is formed by the real numbers, and the vertical -axis, call ...
in terms of an exponential function as follows: \begin \sin (\theta) &= \frac, \\ \cos (\theta) &= \frac, \end Alternatively, both functions can be defined in terms of Euler's formula: \begin e^ &= \cos (\theta) + i \sin (\theta), \\ e^ &= \cos (\theta) - i \sin (\theta). \end When plotted on the
complex plane In mathematics, the complex plane is the plane (geometry), plane formed by the complex numbers, with a Cartesian coordinate system such that the horizontal -axis, called the real axis, is formed by the real numbers, and the vertical -axis, call ...
, the function e^ for real values of x traces out the
unit circle In mathematics, a unit circle is a circle of unit radius—that is, a radius of 1. Frequently, especially in trigonometry, the unit circle is the circle of radius 1 centered at the origin (0, 0) in the Cartesian coordinate system in the Eucli ...
in the complex plane. Both sine and cosine functions may be simplified to the imaginary and real parts of e^ as: \begin \sin \theta &= \operatorname(e^), \\ \cos \theta &= \operatorname(e^). \end When z=x+iy for real values x and y, where i = \sqrt , both sine and cosine functions can be expressed in terms of real sines, cosines, and hyperbolic functions as: \begin \sin z &= \sin x \cosh y + i \cos x \sinh y, \\ \cos z &= \cos x \cosh y - i \sin x \sinh y. \end


Polar coordinates

Sine and cosine are used to connect the real and imaginary parts of a
complex number In mathematics, a complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted , called the imaginary unit and satisfying the equation i^= -1; every complex number can be expressed in the for ...
with its
polar coordinates In mathematics, the polar coordinate system specifies a given point (mathematics), point in a plane (mathematics), plane by using a distance and an angle as its two coordinate system, coordinates. These are *the point's distance from a reference ...
(r, \theta) : z = r(\cos(\theta) + i\sin(\theta)), and the real and imaginary parts are \begin \operatorname(z) &= r \cos(\theta), \\ \operatorname(z) &= r \sin(\theta), \end where r and \theta represent the magnitude and angle of the complex number z . For any real number \theta , Euler's formula in terms of polar coordinates is stated as z = re^.


Complex arguments

Applying the series definition of the sine and cosine to a complex argument, ''z'', gives: : \begin \sin(z)& = \sum_^\infty \fracz^ \\ & = \frac \\ & = \frac \\ & = -i \sinh \left(i z\right)\\ \cos(z)& = \sum_^\infty \fracz^ \\ & = \frac \\ & = \cosh( i z) \\ \end where sinh and cosh are the hyperbolic sine and cosine. These are
entire function In complex analysis, an entire function, also called an integral function, is a complex-valued function that is holomorphic on the whole complex plane. Typical examples of entire functions are polynomials and the exponential function, and any ...
s. It is also sometimes useful to express the complex sine and cosine functions in terms of the real and imaginary parts of its argument: : \begin \sin (x + iy) &= \sin(x) \cos(iy) + \cos(x) \sin(iy) \\ &= \sin(x) \cosh(y) + i \cos(x) \sinh(y)\\ \cos (x + iy) &= \cos(x) \cos(iy) - \sin(x) \sin(iy) \\ &= \cos(x) \cosh(y) - i \sin(x) \sinh(y)\\ \end


Partial fraction and product expansions of complex sine

Using the partial fraction expansion technique in
complex analysis Complex analysis, traditionally known as the theory of functions of a complex variable, is the branch of mathematical analysis that investigates functions of complex numbers. It is helpful in many branches of mathematics, including algebraic ...
, one can find that the infinite series \sum_^\frac = \frac -2z \sum_^\frac both converge and are equal to \frac. Similarly, one can show that \frac = \sum_^\infty \frac. Using product expansion technique, one can derive \sin(\pi z) = \pi z \prod_^\infty \left( 1 - \frac \right).


Usage of complex sine

sin(''z'') is found in the functional equation for the
Gamma function In mathematics, the gamma function (represented by Γ, capital Greek alphabet, Greek letter gamma) is the most common extension of the factorial function to complex numbers. Derived by Daniel Bernoulli, the gamma function \Gamma(z) is defined ...
, :\Gamma(s)\Gamma(1 - s) = , which in turn is found in the functional equation for the Riemann zeta-function, :\zeta(s) = 2(2\pi)^\Gamma(1 - s)\sin\left(\frac s\right)\zeta(1 - s). As a
holomorphic function In mathematics, a holomorphic function is a complex-valued function of one or more complex variables that is complex differentiable in a neighbourhood of each point in a domain in complex coordinate space . The existence of a complex de ...
, sin ''z'' is a 2D solution of Laplace's equation: :\Delta u(x_1, x_2) = 0. The complex sine function is also related to the level curves of pendulums.


Complex graphs



Background


Etymology

The word ''sine'' is derived, indirectly, from the
Sanskrit Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwest South Asia after its predecessor languages had Trans-cultural ...
word 'bow-string' or more specifically its synonym (both adopted from
Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...
'string; chord'), due to visual similarity between the arc of a circle with its corresponding chord and a bow with its string (see jyā, koti-jyā and utkrama-jyā; ''sine'' and ''chord'' are closely related in a circle of unit diameter, see Ptolemy’s Theorem). This was
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in
Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...
as , which is meaningless in that language and written as (). Since Arabic is written without short vowels, was interpreted as the
homograph A homograph (from the , and , ) is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. However, some dictionaries insist that the words must also be pronounced differently, while the Oxford English Dictionar ...
( جيب), which means 'bosom', 'pocket', or 'fold'. When the Arabic texts of Al-Battani and al-Khwārizmī were translated into
Medieval Latin Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. It was also the administrative language in the former Western Roman Empire, Roman Provinces of Mauretania, Numidi ...
in the 12th century by Gerard of Cremona, he used the Latin equivalent ''sinus'' (which also means 'bay' or 'fold', and more specifically 'the hanging fold of a toga over the breast'). Gerard was probably not the first scholar to use this translation; Robert of Chester appears to have preceded him and there is evidence of even earlier usage. The English form ''sine'' was introduced in Thomas Fale's 1593 ''Horologiographia''. The word ''cosine'' derives from an abbreviation of the Latin 'sine of the complementary angle' as ''cosinus'' in Edmund Gunter's ''Canon triangulorum'' (1620), which also includes a similar definition of ''cotangens''.


History

While the early study of trigonometry can be traced to antiquity, the
trigonometric functions In mathematics, the trigonometric functions (also called circular functions, angle functions or goniometric functions) are real functions which relate an angle of a right-angled triangle to ratios of two side lengths. They are widely used in all ...
as they are in use today were developed in the medieval period. The chord function was discovered by
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(180–125 BCE) and
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(90–165 CE). The sine and cosine functions are closely related to the and functions used in
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during the Gupta period ('' Aryabhatiya'' and '' Surya Siddhanta''), via translation from Sanskrit to Arabic and then from Arabic to Latin. All six trigonometric functions in current use were known in Islamic mathematics by the 9th century, as was the
law of sines In trigonometry, the law of sines (sometimes called the sine formula or sine rule) is a mathematical equation relating the lengths of the sides of any triangle to the sines of its angles. According to the law, \frac \,=\, \frac \,=\, \frac \,=\ ...
, used in solving triangles. Al-Khwārizmī (c. 780–850) produced tables of sines, cosines and tangents.Jacques Sesiano, "Islamic mathematics", p. 157, in Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (853–929) discovered the reciprocal functions of secant and cosecant, and produced the first table of cosecants for each degree from 1° to 90°. In the early 17th-century, the French mathematician Albert Girard published the first use of the abbreviations ''sin'', ''cos'', and ''tan''; these were further promulgated by Euler (see below). The ''Opus palatinum de triangulis'' of Georg Joachim Rheticus, a student of Copernicus, was probably the first in Europe to define trigonometric functions directly in terms of right triangles instead of circles, with tables for all six trigonometric functions; this work was finished by Rheticus' student Valentin Otho in 1596. In a paper published in 1682, Leibniz proved that sin ''x'' is not an algebraic function of ''x''. Roger Cotes computed the derivative of sine in his ''Harmonia Mensurarum'' (1722).
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's ''Introductio in analysin infinitorum'' (1748) was mostly responsible for establishing the analytic treatment of trigonometric functions in Europe, also defining them as infinite series and presenting " Euler's formula", as well as the near-modern abbreviations ''sin.'', ''cos.'', ''tang.'', ''cot.'', ''sec.'', and ''cosec.''


Software implementations

There is no standard algorithm for calculating sine and cosine.
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, the most widely used standard for the specification of reliable floating-point computation, does not address calculating trigonometric functions such as sine. The reason is that no efficient algorithm is known for computing sine and cosine with a specified accuracy, especially for large inputs. Algorithms for calculating sine may be balanced for such constraints as speed, accuracy, portability, or range of input values accepted. This can lead to different results for different algorithms, especially for special circumstances such as very large inputs, e.g. sin(10). A common programming optimization, used especially in 3D graphics, is to pre-calculate a table of sine values, for example one value per degree, then for values in-between pick the closest pre-calculated value, or linearly interpolate between the 2 closest values to approximate it. This allows results to be looked up from a table rather than being calculated in real time. With modern CPU architectures this method may offer no advantage. The CORDIC algorithm is commonly used in scientific calculators. The sine and cosine functions, along with other trigonometric functions, are widely available across programming languages and platforms. In computing, they are typically abbreviated to sin and cos. Some CPU architectures have a built-in instruction for sine, including the Intel x87 FPUs since the 80387. In programming languages, sin and cos are typically either a built-in function or found within the language's standard math library. For example, the
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defines sine functions within math.h: sin(
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, sinf( float), and sinl( long double). The parameter of each is a floating point value, specifying the angle in radians. Each function returns the same
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as it accepts. Many other trigonometric functions are also defined in math.h, such as for cosine, arc sine, and hyperbolic sine (sinh). Similarly, Python defines math.sin(x) and math.cos(x) within the built-in math module. Complex sine and cosine functions are also available within the cmath module, e.g. cmath.sin(z). CPython's math functions call the C math library, and use a
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.


Turns based implementations

Some software libraries provide implementations of sine and cosine using the input angle in half- turns, a half-turn being an angle of 180 degrees or \pi radians. Representing angles in turns or half-turns has accuracy advantages and efficiency advantages in some cases.MATLAB Documentation sinpi
/ref>R Documentation sinpi
/ref> These functions are called sinpi and cospi in MATLAB, OpenCL, R, Julia, CUDA, and ARM. For example, sinpi(x) would evaluate to \sin(\pi x), where ''x'' is expressed in half-turns, and consequently the final input to the function, can be interpreted in radians by . The accuracy advantage stems from the ability to perfectly represent key angles like full-turn, half-turn, and quarter-turn losslessly in binary floating-point or fixed-point. In contrast, representing 2\pi, \pi, and \frac in binary floating-point or binary scaled fixed-point always involves a loss of accuracy since irrational numbers cannot be represented with finitely many binary digits. Turns also have an accuracy advantage and efficiency advantage for computing modulo to one period. Computing modulo 1 turn or modulo 2 half-turns can be losslessly and efficiently computed in both floating-point and fixed-point. For example, computing modulo 1 or modulo 2 for a binary point scaled fixed-point value requires only a bit shift or bitwise AND operation. In contrast, computing modulo \frac involves inaccuracies in representing \frac. For applications involving angle sensors, the sensor typically provides angle measurements in a form directly compatible with turns or half-turns. For example, an angle sensor may count from 0 to 4096 over one complete revolution.ALLEGRO Angle Sensor Datasheet
If half-turns are used as the unit for angle, then the value provided by the sensor directly and losslessly maps to a fixed-point data type with 11 bits to the right of the binary point. In contrast, if radians are used as the unit for storing the angle, then the inaccuracies and cost of multiplying the raw sensor integer by an approximation to \frac would be incurred.


See also

* Āryabhaṭa's sine table * Bhaskara I's sine approximation formula * Discrete sine transform * Dixon elliptic functions * Euler's formula * Generalized trigonometry * Hyperbolic function * Lemniscate elliptic functions *
Law of sines In trigonometry, the law of sines (sometimes called the sine formula or sine rule) is a mathematical equation relating the lengths of the sides of any triangle to the sines of its angles. According to the law, \frac \,=\, \frac \,=\, \frac \,=\ ...
* List of periodic functions *
List of trigonometric identities In trigonometry, trigonometric identities are equalities that involve trigonometric functions and are true for every value of the occurring variables for which both sides of the equality are defined. Geometrically, these are identities involvin ...
* Madhava series * Madhava's sine table * Optical sine theorem * Polar sine—a generalization to vertex angles * Proofs of trigonometric identities * Sinc function * Sine and cosine transforms * Sine integral * Sine quadrant *
Sine wave A sine wave, sinusoidal wave, or sinusoid (symbol: ∿) is a periodic function, periodic wave whose waveform (shape) is the trigonometric function, trigonometric sine, sine function. In mechanics, as a linear motion over time, this is ''simple ...
* Sine–Gordon equation * Sinusoidal model * SOH-CAH-TOA *
Trigonometric functions In mathematics, the trigonometric functions (also called circular functions, angle functions or goniometric functions) are real functions which relate an angle of a right-angled triangle to ratios of two side lengths. They are widely used in all ...
*
Trigonometric integral In mathematics, trigonometric integrals are a indexed family, family of nonelementary integrals involving trigonometric functions. Sine integral The different sine integral definitions are \operatorname(x) = \int_0^x\frac\,dt \operato ...


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* {{Trigonometric and hyperbolic functions Angle Trigonometric functions no:Trigonometriske funksjoner#Sinus, cosinus og tangens