# Exact Values of sin (theta)

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## Homework Statement

Does anyone know were I can find a table on the internet of the exact values of sin theta were theta is any whole angle from zero to ninety degrees

Example
sin 0 degrees
sin 1 degrees
sin 2
sin 3
sin 4
sin 5
...
sin 90

## The Attempt at a Solution

thank you I'm to lazy to calculate all of them on my own does anyone know where i could find a table I got about 10 of them done but don't want to waste hours of my llife calculating all 90 when they have already done so can some one point me in the right direction?

Homework Helper
Short answer: you already wrote down the exact values (they are sin(1o), sin(2o), etc.)

Long answer: only for a few special angles, we can write sin(x) in closed form, for example as $\frac{\pi}{a}$ for some integer a. In most cases, this is not possible. If you want a table of decimal values, you can use a program like Mathematica, for example
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Table[N[Sin[x+Degree],+5],+{x,+0,+90}]

Note the use of the function N[..., 5] which gives the results in 5 decimals and compare this to the "exact" table
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Table[Sin[x+Degree],+{x,+0,+90}]

Staff Emeritus
Homework Helper
Do a web search for "trig table" and links to a bunch of nicely formatted tables will come up.

willem2

Nice.

It seems they missed

$$sin \frac {\pi}{20} = \sqrt { \frac {1-\sqrt { \frac {5}{8} + \frac {\sqrt {5}}{8}}} {2}}$$

however and some more multiples of 9 degrees.

Homework Helper
However, there is

sin(pi/20) = 1/2 * (-1)^(9/20) * (-1 + (-1)^(1/10))

dacruick
use any computer program. then go y = sin(x)
then say x = 0.

while x<91
y=sin(x)
print y
x+=1