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Rational cosine of an integral submultiple of pi
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The number
2
cos
(
π
/
n
)
is an algebraic integer. If it is rational it must be an integer, which shows that
cos
(
π
/
n
)
is rational only for
n
=
1
,
2
,
3
.
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