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- From: J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: Trig. inequality
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.030801.4773@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 03:08:01 GMT
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- In article <1ekddfINNi96@uwm.edu>
- radcliff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David G Radcliffe) writes:
-
- > Show that (sin x)^(sin x) < (cos x)^(cos x) when 0 < x < pi/4.
- >
- > --
- > David Radcliffe
- > radcliff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
-
- Simple math. Remember that (sin x)^2+(cos x)^2=1. An identity from my
- trig class back in high school. Setting sin x equal to cos x, we get
- (sin x)^2=1/2. The answer to this is x=pi/4. And since sin x
- increases from 0 to 1 as x increases from 0 to pi/2, it's obvious that
- cos x will be greater than sin x. As neither is negative in this
- range, (cos x)^2 will be greater than (sin x)^2 from 0<x<pi/4. I
- haven't taken any math since freshman year of college, but this was
- easy!
-
-
- --Ted Schuerzinger
- email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
- "I should have realized it would be bad vodka when all the label said
- was 'Russian Vodka'."
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