Why Some Elementary Functions Are Not Rational (original) (raw)

Mathematics Magazine, 2004

José Carlos Santos

Abstract

A classical exercise for college students is to ask them to prove that the sine func-tion is not a polynomial or, more generally, a rational function. This follows from the fact that the sine function has an infinite number of zeros, but this cannot hap-pen to a rational function unless it is ...

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