Why trigonometric ratios were defined for a unit circle

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prashant singh

To make it useful for any angles. I need a good explanation for this.

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jedishrfu

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Think about the advantage of having a circle of radius 1. What does the sin and cos of any angle reduce to?

prashant singh

Y and x okkk ,

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