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Visualizing Sine and Cosine on a Unit Circle: Accurate or Not?
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Well, it doesn't really contain much information, and would probably not make sense to anyone who doesn't already know that the cosine is the x coordinate of points along the unit circle and the sine is the y coordinate.
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Zorodius
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See the attachment for a diagram that illustrates what I believe you were trying to say.
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Nice, I remember seeing that on the blackboard in my class a few years ago. 
FlatlineLemon
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Zorodius said:
i think that's a much better representation.