Monday, 20 April 2015

limits - Prove [sinx]=cosx without using limlimitsxto0fracsinxx=1

I came across this question: How to prove that limx0sinxx=1?




From the comments, Joren said:




L'Hopital Rule is easiest: limx0sinx=0 and limx0=0, so limx0sinxx=limx0cosx1=1.




Which Ilya readly answered:




I'm extremely curious how will you prove then that [sinx]=cosx





My question: is there a way of proving that [sinx]=cosx without using the limit limx0sinxx=1. Also, without using anything else E such that, the proof of E uses the limit or [sinx]=cosx.






All I want is to be able to use L'Hopital in limx0sinxx. And for this, [sinx] has to be evaluated first.







Alright... the definition that some requested.



Def of sine and cosine: Have a unit circumference in the center of cartesian coordinates. Take a dot that belongs to the circumference. Your dot is (x,y). It relates to the angle this way: (cosθ,sinθ), such that if θ=0 then your dot is (1,0).



Basically, its a geometrical one. Feel free to use trigonometric identities as you want. They are all provable from geometry.

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