Strilanc comments on Stupid Questions February 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strilanc 02 February 2015 08:03:00PM 2 points [-]

I would say cos is simpler than sin because its Taylor series has a factor of x knocked off.

In practice they tend to show up together, though. Often you can replace the pair with something like e^(i x), so maybe that should be considered the simplest.