How do you find the exact values of cos 2pi/5?
1 Answer
Mar 16, 2016
Explanation:
Here the most elegant solution I found in:
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/7695/how-to-prove-cos-frac2-pi-5-frac-1-sqrt54
So if
Replacing the cos(2x) and cos(3x) by their general formulae:
we get:
Replacing
We know that
since