[CM] sin(pi/11)
Bill Schottstaedt
bil at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Dec 24 16:52:32 PST 2008
I added sin-m*pi/n to the end of Snd's numerics.scm -- it returns
(as an expression suitable for eval) the exact value of (sin (* m (/ pi n)))
where n is made up of any number of factors of 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, and
257, but there's one more possible case: 11. I can't find an expansion
for it on the web, and my math type friends seem to be off carousing
somewhere. And I skipped the class where they explained how to
solve a quintic. So, does any cmdisterian have access to Mathematica?
I need something like
FunctionExpand[Sin[Pi/11]]
or possibly TrigExpand -- if that doesn't work, I can dig around and
find the right command. Thanks!!
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