Trigonometry/Power Series for Cosine and Sine

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Applying Maclaurin's theorem to the cosine and sine functions for angle x (in radians), we get

For both series, the ratio of the to the term tends to zero for all . Thus, both series are absolutely convergent for all .

Many properties of the cosine and sine functions can easily be derived from these expansions, such as