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It's easy to show more or less directly (by comparing arclength to straight-line length), and certainly without calculus, that the absolute difference between sin(x + delta) and sin(x) is at most |delta|.


You're right. And ditto for cos(x+delta) vs cos(x).

Of course that assumes that arclength is well-defined. The standard approach to which is, of course, Calculus.




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