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Consider a circle of radius r, and a point P(x,y) on its circumference at angle t radians (recall that π radians is 180°) above the x-axis, then the primary trigonometric functions are defined as:
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Dodson, C.T.J., Gonzalez, E.A. (1995). Circular Functions. In: Experiments In Mathematics Using Maple. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79758-3_8
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