How do you evaluate sin(pi/7) ?

1 Answer
Dec 15, 2016

sin(pi/7)~~0.4338837391

Explanation:

If the question real is HOW to do this evaluation:

[1] For all practical purposes, use a calculator (or spreadsheet function).

[2] I you must to this mechanically, you could use the series:
color(white)("XXX")sin(x) =Sigma_(n=0)^L (-1)^n 1/((2n+1)!)*x^(2n+1)
with a significantly large value of L so that successive terms are very small. In this case using 3.14159 for pi, my results did not improve significantly beyond L=4 and were less than 0.001% away from the true value for sin(pi/7)