Exact value of Cos[Pi/17]
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- Subject: [mg14833] Exact value of Cos[Pi/17]
- From: "Christopher Gorski" <cgorski at adelphia.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:29:38 -0500
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In The Mathematica Book, there is an example on page 936 of Mathematica returning the exact answer to Cos[Pi/17]. When I try it out on my NT machine, however, (mathematica v.3), it simply returns Cos[Pi/17]. I've searched throughout the book, and I can't figure out how to get my system to return a answer as in the example given. It will return simple things, Cos[Pi], for example, returns -1, but more complex arguments won't work. -- Christopher Gorski cgorski at adelphia.net http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~cgorski