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by contravariant 3369 days ago
I don't quite agree. Complex analysis is more than powerful enough to recover the unit complex number corresponding to a specific angle without referencing any kind of trigonometry. Of course you'll have reconstructed the sine and cosine functions that way, but you don't need to use a single trigonometric function or theorem to get there.
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In terms of implementation, what are you not quite agreeing with?