Own-Cupcake7586 t1_j6eidx7 wrote
Reply to comment by 321ECRAB123 in eli5: why dies the pythagorean identity work always if it is made with unit circle in mind? by [deleted]
One is the default for the functions. If you’re looking for the output to be a length, you need to scale them accordingly. For example, for a circle of radius 3, you’d write:
3 x (sin^2 + cos^2 ) = 3(x1)
The definition of the equation stays the same, but both sides get scaled evenly.
Hope that helps.
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