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Jan-31-06, 02:10 PM (EST)
 
"sin(sin(sin(...)"
 
   I recently saw a post on the HP website where someone curiously decided to take the sine of an angle and then take the sine of that and the sine of that... The limit of which is 0.

Based on the Taylor series expansion for sin, I would guess that the approach to 0 is very quick at first and then slows to a snails pace, much like x^3/3!

How would one describe it mathematically though? I have heard of rates of decay, but I am not really familiar with them.

The post also asserted that the wave would transition from a sinusoidal wave to a perfect square wave with amplitude tending to 0. Again, I am not sure how to approach that for proving it.

Thanks all for any insight


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